Graball Landing is where Emmett Till’s disfigured body is believed to have been found early in the morning of Aug. 31, 1955, by a Black teenager fishing. Located across from the confluence of the ...

W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large ...

On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till.” ...

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 ...

W. Milam, kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till ... the Tallahatchie River. It was recovered on Aug. 31. Huie’s article said that Till accosted Carolyn ...

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising ... tortured him and tossed his battered body into a river. At Till's funeral, his mother Mamie Till Mobley insisted on an open coffin so everyone could ...

Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, about 30 miles from where the body of Emmett Till was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955. The 14-year-old’s savage murder is widely ...