This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.
As official interpreters for the National Monument, we are committed to the complete and accurate telling of Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley’s history, and to ensuring the public understands ...
The barn is where, on Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett ... to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center to help buy the barn from Andrews and turn it into a monument to Till.
*(CNN) — President Joe Biden plans to name a new national monument next week after Emmett Till, a White House official told CNN, honoring the Black teenager whose murder in 1955 helped galvanize ...
Last year marked the first time Amache, Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, the Ice Age Trail, and Ste. Genevieve tracked visitation. How National Park staffing cuts could impact ...
Recognizing the country’s painful racial history and honoring the legacy of Emmett Till, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday designating a national monument spanning two states ...
Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites, which begins at 5 p.m. Parker is the last living eyewitness to the abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, who was killed at the hands of ...
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 ...
Emmett Till's death had a powerful effect on Mississippi Civil Rights activists. Medgar Evers, then an NAACP field officer in Jackson, Mississippi, urged the NAACP national leadership to get ...