Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

Both were 18 years old. Nine months later, their only child, Emmett Louis Till, nicknamed "Bobo," was born at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. The boy was the apple of his mother and grandmother's ...

Carl Watson, a black landowner who was born four years after the killing, just down the road from the barn, didn’t know the story of Emmett Till until his dad told him in the late 1980s.

Huie was born and raised in Alabama ... “They invent the myth of a defiant, stoic Emmett Till because they need to get rid of ...