Emmett Till’s original glass-topped coffin, now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stands as a powerful reminder of his mother’s courage and the ...

Emmett Till‘s brutal murder in 1955 Mississippi shocked the American public in part due to the power of photography. The 14-year-old was abducted, tortured and shot by two White men, his body weighted ...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of a historic lynching that still shocks us when we think about it. The victim of the lynching was Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, who on Aug.

The gun is now part of a permanent exhibition about TIll at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Mississippi Department of Archives and History After seven decades, the gun thought to have ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History ...

CHICAGO, Ill. — The home of slain Black teenager Emmett Till has been granted landmark status in Chicago. The Chicago City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday that protects the house on the South ...