1956, William Bradford Huie released “Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi,” an article that featured a supposed confession by J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant. As Devery Anderson notes in his new book, “Emmett Till: The Murder that Shocked the
Wheeler Parker Jr., center, Emmett Till's cousin, talks at a ceremony commemorating the 60th anniversary of Till's death at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip on Aug. 28, 2015. To his right are Calandrian Kemp, mother of George Kemp Jr.; Kadiatou Diallo
(AP) — Sixty years after a black Chicago teenager was killed for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, relatives and civil rights activists are holding church services and a movie screening to remember Emmett Till. They're also trying to continue
Sixty years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy from Chicago, was beaten and shot to death in Mississippi for apparently whistling at a white woman. He was kidnapped and found dead three days later. His suspected
EXCLUSIVE: Emmett Till was only 14 when the black teen was brutally murdered after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Mississippi in 1955. The tragic story that galvanized the emerging Civil Rights Movement is the