Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon. When Americans gather to protest racial violence, Thompson writes, “someone almost certainly carries his picture, held high like a cross, no name ...

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.