But Emmett Till wasn't from the South ... Emmett and Simeon, Rev. Wright's son, were asleep together in one room. "I woke up and I looked, I saw two men standing over the bed, one had a gun ...

Danielle Deadwyler plays Mamie Till-Mobley, whose 14-year-old son ... them to not be okay with what they see.” Listen to “Emmett’s Room” below.

Nearly 70 years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered by two white men, the House has passed a resolution to posthumously award both he and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley ...

Deborah Watts, Till’s cousin and co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation ... about the ‘third man’ who came in her room and spoke with her” during the kidnapping.

President Joe Biden signs a proclamation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House campus, Tuesday, July 25, 2023 ...

AP file photo Share Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and best friend, was with Till in Mississippi and in the room when he was abducted. Till’s kidnapping and lynching in 1955 ...

Emmett Till’s funeral was 67 years ago Tuesday ... He prayed as the men came into his room and kidnapped his cousin at gunpoint, “praying to the point of almost begging,” he said.

at an event to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, July 25 ...

More than a century later, in the same room, President Biden on Thursday convened families of people killed in hate crimes for a screening of the movie “Till,” about Emmett Till, the 14-year ...

Tuesday would have been Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday. Members of Illinois’ congressional delegation and state officials were on hand in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office ...

after Biden signed a proclamation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House campus, Tuesday, July 25, 2023, in Washington.