Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.

14-year-old Emmett Till, that same year. The second “Eyes,” which premiered in 1990 and is almost impossible to view outside of schools due to licensing issues, picks up where the original ...

Nine months later, their only child, Emmett Louis Till, nicknamed "Bobo," was born at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. The boy was the apple of his mother and grandmother's eyes. Aside from a bout ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in ... one guy had a pistol and the other had a flashlight, and I closed my eyes to be shot. Of course, they found Emmett ...

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 ...

Watch on YouTube NPCA has been a proud partner in the community-led effort to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument to preserve the family’s legacy, while sharing the story ...