Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.

William Bradford Huie’s article in Look magazine helped shape the country ... Kansas professor whose 2019 book, “Remembering ...

Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon ... by double-jeopardy laws — and published their confessions in Life magazine a few months later. Their version of events left out any mention of ...

The death of 14-year-old Emmett Till shocked the world and sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Wednesday, inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility were able to learn about the details of his ...

They later bragged about committing the murder in a controversial magazine interview. Thanks to a fundraising effort by Tallahatchie County and the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, the courthouse’s ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital ... September 15, 1955 Jet magazine, the nationwide black magazine owned by Chicago-based Johnson Publications, publishes ...

Artifacts include shackles, antique posters breezily advertising slave sales, the gun that killed Medgar Evers and the magazine that published photos of Emmett Till’s corpse. During the slavery era, ...

Or when Emmett asks Major, “So, am I the last Emmett Till?” Not by a long shot ... issue of New York Magazine. Want more stories like this one? Subscribe now to support our journalism ...