The Emmett Till Memorial Commission put up eight markers in Tallahatchie County in 2008, according to The Clarion Ledger, who noted that the sign near the river where Till's was found has been a ...

New Trump administration policies threaten Emmett Till monuments and memorial sites, raising concerns about historical memory and civil rights preservation.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...

Photos of Emmett Till are displayed during an event at Roberts Temple Church of God in Chicago, Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. In 1955, the church was where the brutalized remains of the 14-year-old Till ...

Object Details Author Metress, Christopher Subject Till, Emmett 1941-1955 Milam, J. W Notes Includes index. Contents 1. Discovery and indictment. Two white men charged with kidnaping negro / Delta ...

In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement.

Now he's apprehensive. Nobody said, 'let's go,' we all bee-lined for the car," said Reverend Parker Jr. The 70th anniversary of Till's death is on Aug. 28 of this year.

Emmett Till monument at risk under Trump plan to roll back national monument protections Tallahatchie County, Mississippi — There are 138 National Monuments across the U.S., but for the first ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a civil rights advocate, author and ordained minister, will deliver the keynote address for a Black History Month program at the downtown Embassy Suites.