Information about 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was murdered during a family holiday to Mississippi ... or somebody trying to run over or tear down the sign." "This time, it's more sinister ...
August 20, 1955 Mamie Till rushes her son Emmett to the 63rd Street station in Chicago to catch the southbound train to Money, Mississippi where he will visit with family. The previous day ...
Mississippi in the summer of 1955, when Emmett Till visited relatives, was a different world for this kid from Chicago. Unfamiliar with the ways of the Delta, he had no idea the price to pay for ...
Emmett Louis Till was ... up from Mississippi and paid the family a visit. On his way back, he was taking Emmett's cousin Wheeler Parker with him to spend time with relatives down South.
This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.
Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in ...