M. Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting Mississippi from Chicago—was murdered after whistling at a white woman. His mother insisted that her ...

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 → ...

No one ever served prison time for the killing of Emmett Till, a fourteen year ... murder spurred the Civil Rights Movement. His mother, Mamie Till Mobley, explains, "When people saw what happened ...

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has spoken ... Tyson said Donham expressed feeling “tender sorrow” for Till’s mother, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley.

Chicago's Collaboraction Theatre Company will present a private film screening of its live theatrical performance, Trial in ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world ...

Both Till and Women Of The Movement tell the story of Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, as she reckons with the tragic death of her son. Her real-life decision to have an open casket at ...

Whitten’s granddaughter, Ellen Whitten, found the documents in April and with her mother donated them to the Emmett Till ...

It has been an important year for the memory and impact of Emmett Till’s life and terrible ... the highest civilian honor that Congress bestows. Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, was also ...

The Freedom Center says the exhibit will have stories of Emmett Till, whose life was brutally taken at 14 due to racial violence, and his mother’s bravery in advocating for her son.