At 14, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched by white ... beaten severely and mutilated before being shot. A large metal fan was then tied to his neck with barbed wire and his body was ...

Emmett died. And he died because of a number ... The men then decided to kill him, the article said. Till loaded the gin fan ...

He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. During a recent visit to Milwaukee at Holy Redeemer Church ...

Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon ... The only copy of the trial transcript has long since disappeared. The gin fan used to sink Till’s body in the Tallahatchie River was kept by ...

kidnap Emmett Till from Moses Wright's home. They will later describe brutally beating him, taking him to the edge of the Tallahatchie River, shooting him in the head, fastening a large metal fan ...

We need to tell the stories. It’s what Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. has been doing for 70 years, and it’s what he did again Friday in Lincoln for a small group who gathered to hear Emmett Till’s ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...

This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.

Emmett Till's body was found in the Tallahatchie River, a heavy gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were arrested and brought to trial. Moses Wright ...