6.4K views · 246 reactions | When Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River on Aug. 31, 1955, he was so badly beaten that he could only be identified by his father's ring. A 75-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire had kept him weighed down in the water in the three days since he was taken from his uncle's home. Watch "The Murder of Emmett Till" tonight at 9/8c on PBS or stream it anytime: to.pbs.org/3A2blGK | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

3.7K views · 140 reactions | "Till" is the new film about 14-yo Emmett Till, a Black youth from Chicago visiting Mississippi in 1955, who was abducted & murdered – a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. Till's final days are recounted In this "60 Minutes" report by our late colleague Ed Bradley. https://cbsn.ws/3F2Ai9i | CBS Sunday Morning | Facebook

4.5K views · 149 reactions | Emmett Till was killed on this day in 1955. Mamie Till Mobley on the moment she found out about her son's tragic death in an American Experience | PBS sit-down interview with documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson: "Those words were like arrows sticking all over my body... My eyes were so full of tears until I couldn't see." Watch the entire four-part conversation courtesy of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting: https://bit.ly/3cpwSRU | GBH | Facebook

95K views · 240 reactions | More than 6 decades after Emmett Till was murdered, locals are grappling with how to memorialize him. In this New York Times virtual reality experience, witness the present day conditions of the physical remnants of his legacy. Read more: https://nyti.ms/2SQeIxP | The New York Times | Facebook