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

Mississippi in the summer of 1955, when Emmett Till visited relatives, was a different world for this kid from Chicago. Unfamiliar with the ways of the Delta, he had no idea the price to pay for ...

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 ...

Till’s brutal beating death in Mississippi in 1955 ... Tyson 10 years ago for his new book, The Blood of Emmett Till, according to Vanity Fair and the Austin American-Statesman.

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 ...

the murder of Emmett Till, a Black Chicago teenager who was killed by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam while visiting family in Mississippi. She was excited about the script and did revisions throughout ...

Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change ...

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 ...