Ellen Whitten was 19 when he died. She never asked him about the case, because she’d never heard of Emmett Till. “It’s not ...

In 1955, Emmett Till was 14 years old and growing up Black at Chicago, a part of the great migration of African Americans who had left terrorist southern states in the 1930s. His single mother did all ...

The two men who kidnapped and murdered Emmett Till were found not guilty by an all-white jury. They later confessed to the killing. Sixty-six years later, the case was closed with no convictions.

Well, unfortunately for the Emmett Till case, that didn't happen." While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till's ...

At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white men in 1955 Mississippi, and his death became a catalyst for the civil-rights movement Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies ...