Fifty thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans across the country shuddered.

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested ...

Watch on YouTube NPCA has been a proud partner in the community-led effort to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument to preserve the family’s legacy, while sharing the story ...

OBAMA UNTIL 2015. NOW TO AN IMPORTANT EVENT IN MILWAUKEE TODAY, REMEMBERING THE LIFE OF EMMETT TILL IN 1955. TILL WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS KIDNAPED, BEATEN AND LYNCHED IN MISSISSIPPI ...