Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a civil rights advocate, author and ordained minister, will deliver the keynote address for a Black ...

Miller is an 81-year-old Chicago native who served as the assistant secretary for nuclear energy from 2009 to 2010 and was a childhood friend of Emmett Till. Emmett’s 1955 abduction and lynching ...

He and his friends were enjoying the summer and dancing to a new music called rock and roll. Young Emmett Till, Courtesy: Mamie Till Mobley "The boys wore crepe-soled shoes, polyester pants and ...

Parker sat down with 12 News Gerron Jordan to discuss the murder that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Two men kidnapped, tortured and lynched Till in Drew, Mississippi. Till was visiting ...

On the evening of August 24, 1955, Emmett Till went with his cousins and some friends to Bryant's Grocery for refreshments after picking cotton in the hot sun. The boys went into the store one or ...

OBAMA UNTIL 2015. NOW TO AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN MILWAUKEE TODAY, REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF EMMETT TILL IN 1955. TILL WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS KIDNAPED, BEATEN AND LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...

Anniversary of Till’s lynching coincides with launching of local foundation For Deborah Watts, a family tragedy is also a horrific part of American history. The Plymouth resident for almost ...