One picture that always remained was of Emmett Till. Next to an open casket ... They came back 67 minutes later — with a not-guilty verdict. There were no official court recordings.

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 ...