Johnson's black skin will dictate a desire parallel to the ... (And it remained dangerous half a century later, as Emmett Tilll would discover in 1955.) The fear of a powerful, uncontrollable ...

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 ...