The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Act made way for investigations of racially motivated killings. The federal agency ...

The Mississippi sites are Graball Landing, the spot where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie ... led an effort to get money for a statue of Till that was dedicated last year in Greenwood, ...

August 20, 1955 Mamie Till rushes her son Emmett to the 63rd Street station in Chicago to catch the southbound train to Money, Mississippi where he will visit with family. The previous day ...

In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world ...

Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting Mississippi from Chicago ... At that point, she offered them money. One of the men, Roy Bryant, he ...

A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager ...

Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago ... a sharecropper and preacher who lived in a small home near Money, a Mississippi Delta whistle stop. Till was a confident, fun-loving kid, quick to play pranks ...

In August 1955, Emmett Till traveled from his home in Chicago to visit relatives in Money, Mississippi. Till, who was unaware of the deeply ingrained racism in the Jim Crow South, was accused by ...

Emmett Till's cousin ... “That’s what got [Till] killed: her lie. Her lie is what got him killed.” Till’s brutal beating death in Mississippi in 1955, the acquittal of his professed ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – A play about Emmett Till that features a local cast will ... 14-year-old Emmett was killed in Money, Mississippi in 1955 while visiting from Chicago. He was brutally murdered ...

Mamie Till rushes her son Emmett to the 63rd Street station in Chicago to catch the southbound train to Money, Mississippi where he will visit with family. The previous day, Mamie had given Emmett ...