September 23, 1955 Milam and Bryant are acquitted of murdering Emmett Till after the jury deliberates only 67 minutes. One juror tells a reporter that they wouldn't have taken so long if they hadn ...

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

Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed The US government has closed an inquiry into the infamous 1955 murder of a black boy in Mississippi after failing to ...

The murderers, who later admitted their brutal acts, were acquitted in a matter of minutes, leaving the Till family without the justice they deserved. By preserving key sites related to Emmett Till, ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a ...

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 ...