Sep 5, 2017 · Simeon Wright, Emmett Till's cousin, who witnessed his 1955 abduction, died Monday at the age of 74. It was Aug. 28, 1955, when 14-year-old Emmett Till was wrenched …

Aug 28, 2023 · That summer of 1955, Parker, 16 and Till, 14 — cousins and close friends — took the Illinois Central’s City of New Orleans train south from Chicago to visit and stay with relatives in rural Mississippi.

Mar 5, 2023 · RASCOE: What he's had to live with since 1955 is a double blow - the lynching of his 14-year-old cousin Emmett Till after an interaction with a white store clerk in Mississippi and then the...

2 days ago · Emmett Till's cousin preaches at Milwaukee church, shares story with 12 News Rev. Wheeler Parker sat down with 12 News' Gerron Jordan on the first day of Black History Month

Mar 29, 2024 · Wheeler Parker was a teen when Emmett Till, his cousin, was murdered in 1955. Now 85, he discusses faith, resiliency, apathy — and what he talked about with President Biden.

Sep 11, 2017 · He shared a bed the night in 1955 that his cousin Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered for allegedly wolf-whistling at a white woman

Jul 25, 2023 · History remembers Emmett Till for the brutal, unthinkable way he died — a 14-year-old beaten and lynched after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in 1955 Mississippi. NBC News’ Blayne...

Sep 5, 2017 · CHICAGO (AP) — Simeon Wright, who was with his cousin Emmett Till when the Chicago boy was kidnapped in 1955 after whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, has died. He was 74.

Apr 24, 2024 · Emmett Till's cousin reflected on being the last surviving witness to his abduction. LAWRENCE, Kan. — Aug. 28 will make 70 years since Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi. He was a...

Jul 1, 2022 · On Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett Till was abducted from his bed in Moses Wright’s house by a group of white men who beat the teenager, gouged out his left eye, knocked out his teeth, crushed his nose ...