In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission erected a historical marker next to the river where Till’s body was found. It was replaced at least nine times, after the signs were stolen ...

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 ...

September 6, 1955 Emmett Till is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery. In Mississippi, a grand jury indicts Milam and Bryant for the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. They both plead innocent.

"Emmett Till was a fun-loving prankster ... D.C. The casket was recently discovered discarded like trash at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., where former workers are charged with digging ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...

you all dug an old white man out the grave portraying him as Emmett,'" Parker said. READ MORE:Milwaukee church recognizing Black history conversing with Emmett Till's cousin CHECK OUT WISN ...

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 ...

Thousands of Chicagoans wait in line to see Emmett's brutally beaten body. Emmett Till is buried at Burr Oak Cemetery. In Mississippi, a grand jury indicts Milam and Bryant for the kidnapping and ...