Emmett Till's murder was a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement. The sight of his brutalized body pushed many who had been content to stay ...

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement A white woman from Mississippi whose 1955 accusation against a black teenager Emmett Till led to his murder has died.

Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in ...

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

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 ...