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.
A SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN SEPTEMBER 25TH. DAYS AFTER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE RECORDS ON THE LYNCHING OF EMMETT TILL PUBLIC-- HIS FAMILY TALKS ABOUT THE CONTINUED CALL FOR JUSTICE IN HIS ...
CHICAGO -- President Joe Biden established a national monument honoring civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been his 82nd birthday. President Biden signed a ...
The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...
Read these excerpts from an interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, professor of History and Africana Studies and chair of the history department at New York University, on the legacies of Emmett Till's ...
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