The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum. On August 28, 1955, Emmett was kidnapped, tortured, killed and dumped in the Tallahatchie River in ...

To passersby, it looks like any ordinary wooden barn - but the unassuming exterior hides a chilling truth. This is the scene ...

He was only 14 years old. Just a few weeks later, his murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were put on trial. A jury of all-white men deliberated for just 67 minutes before acquitting Bryant and ...

In Greenwood, Miss., a 20-man grand jury last week declined to indict Roy Bryant and John W. Milam for the admitted kidnaping of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, before he was killed. Bryant and Milam ...

His story stands as one of the great tragedies and defining moments of American history. In August 1955, two white half brothers, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, kidnapped Till, a fourteen year old black ...

In the trial a few weeks later, an all-white male jury deliberated for just 67 minutes before acquitting Till’s murderers Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam. The case was widely publicized and documented by ...

Don't you say anything.'" Instead, Reed summoned all of his courage and walked into a courtroom to accuse two white men, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, of murder. Asked why he'd ignored warnings about ...

The author's New York Times bestseller explores the culture of silence that enveloped the Mississippi Delta over the 1955 murder of Emmett Till.

Two men — Roy Bryant, owner of Bryant’s Grocery and ... 235-pound World War II veteran named J.W. Milam — were first charged with kidnapping. That became murder after the teenager’s ...

One of the policemen in the city of Ruleville was J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant's brother. Reed likely passed his girlfriend Ella Mae Stubbs's home. He didn't have time to tell her goodbye.