Simeon Wright, 67, is Emmett Till's cousin and was with him the night Till was kidnapped and murdered. M. Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting M ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

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 ...