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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has spoken ... Bryant and Milam confessed to their guilt in Till’s death in a Look magazine article. (Both men have since died.) ...

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, ...