On Tuesday, President Biden signed a proclamation to establish a national monument honoring Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was brutally lynched in Mississippi over 67 years ago. The ...

Many people are familiar with the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy who was tortured and killed for his interaction with a white woman during the Jim Crow era. Our awareness of his story ...

Memphis, TN, Sept. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., the first cousin of Emmett Till and last surviving witness to his abduction, will be featured at the National Civil Rights ...

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 Museum ...

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President Joe Biden signs a proclamation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House campus on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. The ...

ATLANTA - Monday marks 68 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi, a brutal event which became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Till’s 1955 lynching, the acquittal of ...

On this day in 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American, was murdered after being accused of flirting with a white woman. The brutality of Till’s murder, along with the acquittal of his ...

Last week, President Joe Biden announced plans for new monuments to honor Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie. They will be erected in Mississippi where Till was murdered and at the church in Chicago ...