His cousin Emmett, 14, wanted to tag along. Watch: Last living witness recalls the lynching of Emmett Till Last living witness recalls the lynching of Emmett Till "They said he couldn't go because ...

Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon ... For almost half a century, the “official” story of the lynching came from journalist William Bradford Huie. He sat with Roy Bryant and J.

At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white men in 1955 Mississippi, and his death became a catalyst for the civil-rights movement Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies ...

Relatives and supporters of Emmett Till are calling on authorities to reopen the investigation of the Black teenager’s 1955 lynching. The Justice Department reopened the investigation in July 2018 ...

In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...

Parker has spent his life telling his story, and he has pushed for legislative changes, including the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act in 2022, which made lynching a federal hate crime. He co ...

There have been numerous treatments in various media of the horrific 1955 murder in Money Mississippi of 14yearold Chicagoan Emmett Till but none like this concise stunning dramatization in which ...