Even a well known story depends on where you begin to tell it. In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy visiting Mississippi, was lynched by white men who said he'd ...

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum put the gun on display Thursday, soon after the federal government released thousands of pages of records on the Till case. By Emily Cochrane and Audra D. S. Burch ...

Till was brutally murdered in 1955 in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman in public. After being beaten beyond recognition and thrown into the Tallahatchie River, two men were ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — “If we can say that the civil rights movement was one of the most important movements that was ever created by the citizens of this country, more successful than any other movement ...

In the heart of America's persistent struggle for racial justice, we pause to honor the life and legacy of Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old boy whose brutal murder on Aug. 28, 1955, in Money, ...

FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses claimed he whistled ...

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A relative of Emmett Till is suing to try to make a Mississippi sheriff serve a 1955 arrest warrant on a white woman in the kidnapping that led to the Black teenager's ...

"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in ...

A new book will shed light on the untold story of Emmett Till's father, Louis Till. Titled Writing To Save A Life: The Louis Till File, the book finds writer John Edgar Wideman trying to uncover the ...

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