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 ...

Emmett Till’s death was a catalyst for the later phases of America’s civil rights movement, and now, with the help of Whoopi Goldberg, Jay-Z and Will Smith, his story is being adapted for the ...

(WIBW) - The Indiana Avenue Church of Christ held their second annual Heritage Sunday to celebrate Black history and host guest presenter Amberly Carter, cousin of Emmett Till. Till’s 1955 ...

Mrs. Ogburn held up a newspaper clipping about Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old Black youth who had been abducted and lynched in Mississippi after he was accused of offending a white woman in her ...

From start to finish, the filmmakers, including co-writer and producer Keith Beauchamp, who 17 years ago made the award-winning documentary “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,” home in on ...

“I haven’t talked to him today, and that’s unusual,” Priscilla Williams Till said of her 19-year-old, Emmett Louis Till ...

The National Park Service has awarded a $75,000 grant to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner. Rep. Bennie Thompson made the announcement Wednesday. Sign up for our Newsletters The ...

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 ...