Though the murder was a national scandal, Wright Thompson, a white author who grew up in the Delta, tells a full and ...

Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.

Despite her powerful testimony, Bryant and Milam were acquitted. They later bragged about committing the murder in a controversial magazine interview. Thanks to a fundraising effort by Tallahatchie ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital ... September 15, 1955 Jet magazine, the nationwide black magazine owned by Chicago-based Johnson Publications, publishes ...

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 ...

William Bradford Huie’s article in Look magazine helped shape the country ... Kansas professor whose 2019 book, “Remembering ...

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment ... They later admitted to the killing in a magazine interview, but could not be re-tried under US law. Both are now dead. Till's great-uncle ...

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment ... They later admitted to the killing in a magazine interview, but could not be re-tried under US law. Both are now dead. Donham died in the ...

When Emmett Till’s body was returned to Chicago ... his mother made the brave decision to allow Jet magazine to publish a ...

But unlike so many African Americans in Mississippi who were murdered, Emmett Till was not forgotten. Till Bradley had his body shipped north for the funeral and then demanded that the casket remain ...

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.

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 ...