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.
Emmett Till, in some ways, gave ordinary black people ... let alone people in Europe and Africa and Asia who saw the same images. I know for me personally, when I first saw those images, years ...
I knew a fun-loving prankster, always telling jokes. You see a picture of him, and he’s pleasantly smiling—that’s Emmett Till." Photos of Emmett Till are displayed during an event at Roberts ...
At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white men in 1955 Mississippi, and his death became a catalyst for the civil-rights movement Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies ...
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 ...
The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...
Frishman’s photos are captivating and thought-provoking ... I can’t imagine a more beautiful creation.” When Emmett Till’s ...