15 Second Floor, East During a visit to see his great uncle in Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, of Chicago, was brutally lynched Aug. 28,1955. When his mutilated body was recovered from the ...
The legislature is titled the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, an ode to Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was kidnapped, beaten and lynched in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a ...
The exhibit, “The Impact of Images: Mamie Till’s Courage from Tragedy,” takes viewers through the events preceding and following the 1955 lynching of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till.
On the eve of the last two sentencing hearings this week in the case of a pair of Black men tortured by six White law enforcement officers, a cousin of Emmett Till’s mother thought of her own son.
Rik Emmett believes Triumph has never gotten serious consideration for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame due to a lingering “huge prejudice” against band's like his. The Canadian rocker laid out ...
On the eve of the last two sentencing hearings this week in the case of a pair of Black men tortured by six White law enforcement officers, a cousin of Emmett Till’s mother thought of her own son.
Rankin County, Mississippi (CNN) — On the eve of the last two sentencing hearings this week in the case of a pair of Black men tortured by six White law enforcement officers, a cousin of Emmett ...
“I haven’t talked to him today, and that’s unusual,” Priscilla Williams Till said of her 19-year-old, Emmett Louis Till Williams – named, she said, for the boy whose 1955 lynching just a ...
The film is based on the true story of Mamie Till-Mobley's pursuit of justice following the 1955 killing of her 14-year-old son Emmett. The screening is part of the Pittsfield Public Schools Arts ...
“Till” centers on the mother of murdered Chicago teenager Emmett Till and his mother’s fight for justice after the 1955 lynching of her 14-year-old son. We reported earlier via CNN that in a ...
By Alex Traub and Emmett Lindner Peter G. Angelos, who enjoyed enormous success as a lawyer but garnered a more mixed record as the longtime owner of the Baltimore Orioles, died on Saturday.