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.

Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night ... State law prohibited us from placing that casket back into the grave, so we had to bury him in a new casket.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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