The U.S. Army had executed Private Till in Italy in 1945 for raping two Italian women and killing a third. The insinuation: Emmett's behavior ran in the family. On November 9, 1955, a Mississippi ...

Till, who was black, was brutally tortured and killed in 1955 after a white woman accused ... violent racism and hatred that took the life of Emmett and so many others. The passage of this bill ...

W. Milam will always be linked to the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. In the minds of many, they live in history as the trio that got away with murder. Carolyn Bryant, the daughter of a plantation ...

C arolyn Bryant Donham, a name etched into one of the darkest chapters of American history, played a pivotal role in the brutal death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, in 1955. Her actions ...

The Justice Department has reopened the racist killing of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, NPR reports. The department says it has received ...

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has ... Bryant and Milam were acquitted of Till’s kidnapping and murder in September 1955 by an all-white, all-male jury.

Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night Till was kidnapped and murdered. M. Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting M ...

Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy, whose body was found weighted down in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Miss., August 31, 1955. Local residents Roy Bryant, 24, ...

Parker is Emmett Till's cousin. Till was a teenager who was beaten and lynched in Mississippi for offending a white woman in ...

A WOMAN at the centre of the notorious murder case of 14-year-old Emmett Till has admitted to fabricating her testimony which contributed to the acquittal of his killers. Historian Timothy B Tyson ...

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.