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.

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a white woman outside a store in segregated Mississippi. The widely ...

To understand this erasure, he compiles historical texts, journalism, first-person interviews and his own relationship to his native Delta, where the titular barn — the site of terrorism and ...

Y’ALL DROVE AN OLD WHITE MAN UP OUT OF THE GRAVE, PORTRAYING IT AS EMMETT TILL PARKER, A LIVING LEGEND, MAKING SURE HIS COUSIN’S STORY IS ALIVE FOR MANY Holy Redeemer Church of God in Christ ...

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 ...

"You could not identify his face because he was so badly beaten and they won the court case saying this is not Emmet Till, this is an old White man that you all have dug up out of the grave to ...

CHICAGO -- Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and returned ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley exhibit premieres Friday at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The exhibit is called "Let the World See" after Mamie's ...

The National Park Service has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner. Rep. Bennie Thompson made the announcement Wednesday.The funding will support the documentation ...