Scott Olson/Getty Images A plaque marks the gravesite for Emmett Till at a cemetery in Illinois Both the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have been alerted to the photo by ...

Emmett's class photo, November 1954 Courtesy: Mamie Till Mobley "Emmett was a funny guy all the time. He had a suitcase of jokes that he liked to tell," said Heard. "He loved to make people laugh.

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum. On August 28, 1955, Emmett was kidnapped, tortured, killed and dumped in the ...