Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon ... actually murdered — and the body was planted by the NAACP “to make Mississippi look bad and further a communist agenda hell-bent on tearing ...

August 20, 1955 Mamie Till rushes her son Emmett to the 63rd Street station in Chicago to catch the southbound train to Money, Mississippi where he will visit with family. The previous day ...

Where: 158 North Court St., Sumner. Why: In 1955, Emmett Till visited relatives in Money, Mississippi. The 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white woman and was kidnapped, tortured and killed.

In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world ...

Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...

Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites, which begins at 5 p.m. Parker is the last living eyewitness to the abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, who was killed at the hands of ...

The Justice Department has reopened the racist killing of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi in 1955, NPR reports. The department says it has received ...

cousin of Emmett Till. Till’s 1955 lynching in Mississippi, and the circumstances leading up to it, made him a figure of the early Civil Rights Movement. Till was accused of whistling at a white ...

The U.S. Army had executed Private Till in Italy in 1945 for raping two Italian women and killing a third. The insinuation: Emmett's behavior ran in the family. On November 9, 1955, a Mississippi ...