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 ...

This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then every time it's been riddled with bullets – marks the spot where young Emmett Till's brutally-beaten body was pulled from ...

W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large ...

in the Tallahatchie River. Someone had tied a 70-pound cotton gin fan to his neck, hoping he would never be seen again. But unlike so many African Americans in Mississippi who were murdered, Emmett ...

Why isn’t the DA in Tallahatchie County prosecuting them ... “They invent the myth of a defiant, stoic Emmett Till because ...

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has ... and his half-brother, J.W. Milam. Till’s body was sunk in the Tallahatchie River, where it was eventually found floating.

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... to be the place where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in August 1955. In 2008, several signs detailing his ...

Emmett Till’s death was a catalyst for the later ... Once they found him, they took him to the Tallahatchie River where they brutally beat and killed him before sinking his body in the river.

It has been an important year for the memory and impact of Emmett Till’s life and terrible ... and dumped him in the Tallahatchie River. Bryant and Milam stood trial and were acquitted by ...

Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night Till was kidnapped and murdered. M. Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting M ...

Emmett Till's cousin said the revelation that Till's accuser, Carolyn Bryant, is now saying part of her story was false is "a godsend" A “godsend.” That’s how Emmett Till’s family ...

W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large ...