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.

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a white woman outside a store in segregated Mississippi. The widely ...

They put him in the back of Milam’s truck, and one or more Black men who worked for Milam held Till down ... heard of Emmett ...

Emmett Till ... some of Mississippi’s most notorious Klansmen to justice, including Medgar Evers’ killer. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a tangible reflection of the cultural shift toward ...