Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...

Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till shares Emmett's story and legacy through photographs of the joyful life he led in Chicago, the gut-wrenching images from his funeral and the original ...

How Emmett Till's horrific lynching helped spark the US civil rights movement and remains a rallying cry nearly 70 years after his brutal murder Chicago teen Emmett Till was visiting relatives in ...

(Dave Byrnes / Courthouse News) CHICAGO (CN) — The church where Emmett Till's funeral took place was formally deemed a national monument Tuesday in a ceremony featuring multiple Illinois officials and ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...

CHICAGO -- Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and returned ...

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 ...

The Reader revisits a 2014 feature on Chicago sculptor Richard Hunt, who died in December 2023 after a career spanning seven decades.

The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum.

Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally beaten and killed after a white woman claimed he harassed her at a store. Carolyn Bryant Donham ...

The church was filled to capacity, while an estimated 10,000 people stood outside listening to the service over loudspeakers. That Emmett Till’s body even made it to Chicago from Mississippi ...