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

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

August 20, 1955 Mamie Till rushes her son Emmett to the 63rd Street station in Chicago to catch the southbound train to Money, Mississippi where he will visit with family. The previous day ...

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 ...

No one was arrested in connection with either murder. Emmett Till's death had a powerful effect on Mississippi Civil Rights activists. Medgar Evers, then an NAACP field officer in Jackson ...

In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world ...

Emmett Till had been visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally killed The US government has closed an inquiry into the infamous 1955 murder of a black boy in Mississippi after failing to ...

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

Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...

A group searching for contents related to the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse has uncovered an unserved arrest warrant for the white woman ...