A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested ...

(AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) "Emmett Till was not the first person to suffer such atrocities. Five hundred people were lynched in Mississippi, but their stories either died with them or were silenced." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emmett Till's murder was a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement. The sight of his brutalized body pushed many who had been content to stay ...

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 ...

The National Park Service has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner. Rep. Bennie Thompson made the announcement Wednesday. Sign up for our Newsletters The ...