A SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN SEPTEMBER 25TH. DAYS AFTER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MADE RECORDS ON THE LYNCHING OF EMMETT TILL PUBLIC-- HIS FAMILY TALKS ABOUT THE CONTINUED CALL FOR JUSTICE IN HIS ...

Emmett Till’s death shocked millions of people across America and was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, but many facts about his life and his murder remained unknown for decades. More than 60 ...

Emmett Till's death was a key galvanising moment in the US civil rights movement [Getty Images] Thousands of pages of records have been released in the US detailing the government's response to the ...

Thousands of federal records related to Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching have been released by the National Archives, just days before the 70th anniversary of his death. The documents reveal how federal ...

Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago, was killed in Mississippi in 1955. The childhood home of slain teenager Emmett Till has been declared a landmark by the Chicago City Council. Till, a ...

Families of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin will attend Till's commemoration. — -- Today marks 60 years since Chicago teenager Emmett Till was killed at age 14 for apparently whistling at a ...

The commemoration of 70 years since Emmett Till's death is being marked by family, friends and officials Wednesday as they repeated the fateful train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.

Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records Friday on the lynching of Emmett Till. The records in the National Archives, ...

Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records Friday on the lynching of Emmett Till. The records in the National Archives, ...