Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement A white woman from Mississippi whose 1955 accusation against a black teenager Emmett Till led to his murder has died.
Months before Emmett's death in 1955, two African American activists in Mississippi had been murdered. An NAACP field worker, the Reverend George Lee, was shot and killed at point blank range ...
Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement A jury in Mississippi has declined to bring charges against the woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of ...
“I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,” she said. Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation. At a church on the South Side of ...
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 ...
Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till shares Emmett's story and legacy through photographs of the joyful life he led in Chicago, the gut-wrenching images from his funeral and the original ...