About Wright Thompson Wright Thompson is a Mississippi Delta native whose recent book explores one of the most infamous and ...

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death of 14-year-old Emmett Till shocked the world and sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Wednesday, inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility were able to learn about the details of his ...

Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American teenager who was abducted, tortured and lynched in Mississippi, after being accused of whistling at a white woman in her family’s grocery store.

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 ...