Louis Till was executed by the military in 1945, while serving in a segregated unit in Italy during World War II. He and another soldier had been convicted of murdering one woman and of raping ...

Six decades after Emmett Till's murder, and seven decades after Louis Till was executed by the U. S. Army, John Edgar Wideman investigates whether the father, like the son, suffered a perversion ...

John Edgar Wideman talked about his book [Writing to Save a Life: the Louis Till File], in which he discusses the execution of Louis Till by the U.S. Army in 1945 and the impact that it had on the ...

A decade before his teenage son was lynched in Mississippi, Louis Till was serving overseas in World War II. Writing to Save a Life explores how Till was convicted of rape and murder and put to death.

Mamie Till, the mother of Emmett Till, pauses at her son’s casket at a Chicago funeral home in 1955. Pamela Newkirk is the author of “Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga.” John ...

The Memphis Commercial Appeal publishes an article reporting that Louis Till was executed by the U.S. Army in Italy in 1945 for raping two Italian women and killing a third.

As a black man, I have made a conscious endeavor not to let my color color my commentary, but this does not mean that I’ve made a decisive effort to ...