The memorial honours 14-year-old Emmett Till, whose torture and murder in 1955 galvanised the civil rights movement. The three may now face an investigation by the Department of Justice.

A memorial to an African-American boy whose lynching galvanised the US civil rights movement has been vandalised for the second time in as many months. Information about 14-year-old Emmett Till ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → ...

They later bragged about committing the murder in a controversial magazine interview. Thanks to a fundraising effort by Tallahatchie County and the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, the courthouse’s ...

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 ...

The third replacement sign was made to be bulletproof and set up last October. Read more: Emmett Till memorial that was pictured with Ole Miss students holding guns will be replaced with bullet ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested multiple people were involved in the boy’s abduction and death ...

On the north wall of St Margaret's church Westminster is a memorial to Maurice (Morris or Morice) Emmett. It is presumed to be by his brother, sculptor William Emmett, who was also a woodcarver who ...