Two-year-old Mamie Carthan arrives in Argo, Illinois, a small town outside of Chicago, with her mother. Her father has arrived several months ahead of the family to work at the Argo Corn Products ...
Editor's note: The video in this story is from a previous report. A visiting professor of Emory University's School of Law is providing insight after Carolyn Bryant Donham died. Donham was the ...
In 1955, a white woman alleged that a Black teenager whistled at, grabbed and said obscene things to her in her grocery store in Mississippi. The result? A brutal kidnapping, beating and murder in ...
Wheeler, the last surviving witness to the kidnapping of Till, said the prankster kid with a speech impediment and the ...
Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed The US government has closed an inquiry into the infamous 1955 murder of a black boy in Mississippi after failing to ...
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 ...
Read these excerpts from an interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of History and Africana Studies and chair of the history department at New York University, on the legacies of Emmett Till ...
Rev. Wheeler Parker, the cousin and childhood friend of Emmett Till, recently spoke at KU's Spencer Museum of Art sharing his ...
Carolyn Bryant Donham poses for a photo in 1955. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the ...
LAWRENCE — Black teenagers Wheeler Parker and Emmett Till were on vacation from Chicago when they stepped into the white-owned Mississippi Delta grocery store operated by Roy and Carolyn Bryant to buy ...