The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum. On August 28, 1955, Emmett was kidnapped, tortured, killed and dumped in the Tallahatchie River in ...

Strider was the first official to learn that a body had been discovered by a young man fishing in the Tallahatchie River ... whether it was that of a white or a black person.

This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then ... The country store where Till whistled at a white woman – this 14-year-old boy's "capital offense" – is being reclaimed ...

killed and dumped in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. He was only 14 years old. Just a few weeks later, his murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were put on trial. A jury of all-white men ...