In January, 67 years after he was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, Till was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor that Congress bestows. Till’s mother ...
A Mississippi sheriff has pushed back against calls from relatives of Emmett Till to arrest a White woman who claimed Till had whistled at her inappropriately, an accusation that led to his ...
Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a ...