About Wright Thompson Wright Thompson is a Mississippi Delta native whose recent book explores one of the most infamous and ...

“It’s in the past,” he told the author, as Thompson recounts in his new book, “The Barn ... In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission erected a historical marker next to the river ...

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has spoken out for the first time, more than 60 years later, admitting that part of her story about the black teenager is false, a new book ...

They later bragged about committing the murder in a controversial magazine interview. Thanks to a fundraising effort by Tallahatchie County and the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, the courthouse’s ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...