Emmett Till's murder case sparked decades of public outrage and became a catalyst for the modern-day Civil Rights Movement. In August 2020, a grand jury declined to indict Donham. "There is a ...
A brutal kidnapping, beating and murder in the Jim Crow south ... his unjustified death and recent history of the case. Emmett Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago. He was an only child ...
Wheeler, the last surviving witness to the kidnapping of Till, said the prankster kid with a speech impediment and the ...
Rev. Wheeler Parker, the cousin and childhood friend of Emmett Till, recently spoke at KU's Spencer Museum of Art sharing his ...
The Justice Department has reopened the racist killing of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, NPR reports. The department says it has received ...
A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... The men confessed to the murder in 1956, in an article in Look magazine. By then, they were immune from further prosecution.
By preserving key sites related to Emmett Till, his murder and its aftermath, this park site helps ensure that his story is honored and remembered. The national park site is comprised of three anchor ...
The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. The last living witness to the kidnapping of Emmett Till — which led to the murder of the Black teenager and spurred a racial reckoning in 1955 — will speak on the ...
“You don’t want to ever experience anything like that in your life. You feel so helpless.” The Rev. Wheeler Parker said the murder of Emmett Till, 14, by white supremacists in Mississippi reignited ...