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 ...

In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission erected a historical marker next to the river where Till’s body was found. It was replaced at least nine times, after the signs were stolen ...

*(CNN) — President Joe Biden plans to name a new national monument next week after Emmett Till, a White House official told CNN, honoring the Black teenager whose murder in 1955 helped galvanize ...

Recognizing the country’s painful racial history and honoring the legacy of Emmett Till, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday designating a national monument spanning two states ...

Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites, which begins at 5 p.m. Parker is the last living eyewitness to the abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, who was killed at the hands of ...

Outside the courthouse, a Confederate monument still stands, and the interior of the courtroom looks precisely as it did in 1955 when a jury acquitted Emmett Till’s killers. For more than 50 years, ...

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/ From left: Walter Reed, Willie Reed, Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett ...