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.

Ellen Whitten was 19 when he died. She never asked him about the case, because she’d never heard of Emmett Till. “It’s not ...

Well, unfortunately for the Emmett Till case, that didn't happen." While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till's ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-trial-jw-milam-and-roy-bryant/ The jury at the trial of two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, charged ...