“You don’t want to ever experience anything like that in your life. You feel so helpless.” The Rev. Wheeler Parker said the ...
Ronald Collins, author of Tragedy on Trial, about Emmett Till's murder, will be part of a National Constitution Center ...
A white woman whose accusation against black teenager Emmett Till led to his lynching and murder has died ... who was writing a book about the case, she said: “Nothing that boy did could ...
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 ...
Family has requested the Jackson Police Department to assist in investigation into Dau Mabil's death, saying they suspect ...
Ever since Till’s murder in Mississippi ... young Black boys — when I see that happen, I see Emmett Till. JJ: Yes. WP: The George Floyd case really, really affected me, and it really caught ...
Batiste's murder case is one of dozens of unsolved murders of Black men from the 1970s, now being reinvestigated thanks to a grant HPD received in 2021: The Emmett Till Grant. In Batiste's file ...
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 ...
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.