Though the murder was a national scandal, Wright Thompson, a white author who grew up in the Delta, tells a full and ...

In his new book, author Wright Thompson examines the site of the notorious 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and a ...

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Every day just outside Drew, Mississippi, people drive by a barn with no idea what they are passing. It was in that barn ...

In Belgium, the newspaper Le Drapeau Rouge (the Red Flag), publishes a brief article entitled: "Racism in the USA: A young black is lynched in Mississippi." Emmett Till's body is taken to ...

In his new book "The Barn," author Wright Thompson, also a fifth-generation Mississippi Delta cotton farmer, examines the ...

In Belgium, the newspaper Le Drapeau Rouge (the Red Flag), publishes a brief article entitled: "Racism in the USA: A young black is lynched in Mississippi." September 3, 1955 Emmett Till's body ...

One Black newspaper hailed Huie’s “spectacular ... “They invent the myth of a defiant, stoic Emmett Till because they need to ...

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 ...

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement A jury in Mississippi has declined to bring charges against the woman whose accusation led to the 1955 lynching of ...

Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed The US government has reopened an investigation into the 1955 murder of a black 14-year-old boy whose death ...