In his new book, author Wright Thompson examines the site of the notorious 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and a ...

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

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

Every day just outside Drew, Mississippi, people drive by a barn with no idea what they are passing. It was in that barn ...

The CCAC looked again at design proposals and this time recommended two for the congressional gold medal authorized in 2023 ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested ...

Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in ...

This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.

An Axios review of a new National Archives portal found just digitized unsolved cases of lynchings, racial violence and ...

A new exhibit at a Cincinnati museum will tell the story of Emmett Till's murder and the role his mother played in fighting for justice. The exhibit, titled Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...