In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, Billy Wilder's romantic comedy "The Seven Year Itch" starring Marilyn Monroe premiered in New ...

NAACP Berkshires President Dennis Powell reminded a cheering audience that “every dollar raised tonight goes towards creating opportunities for those students to ensure they succeed and thrive in a ...

were among the “problem pictures” that tested the waters. But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into the ...

"Home of the Brave," "Lost Boundaries," "Pinky" and "Intruder in the Dust," all released in 1949, were among the "problem pictures" that ... and the murder of Emmett Till was seared into ...

“Home of the Brave,” “Lost Boundaries,” “Pinky” and “Intruder in the Dust,” all released in 1949, were among the “problem pictures ... the murder of Emmett Till was seared ...

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

OBAMA UNTIL 2015. NOW TO AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN MILWAUKEE TODAY, REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF EMMETT TILL IN 1955. TILL WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS KIDNAPED, BEATEN AND LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI ...

EMMETT TILL, FROM CHICAGO, WAS VISITING FAMILY IN THE SOUTH WHEN HE WHISTLED AT A WHITE WOMAN AT A GROCERY STORE. THAT WOMAN’S HUSBAND AND FRIEND KILLED TILL IN 1955. HIS DEATH SPARKED THE CIVIL ...