Based on A Few Days Full of Trouble by Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson, the feature doc will explore two parallel tracks of the Till story. One set in motion by the last four ...
A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing ... it threatened the sale of his story. He also was seeking a movie deal about the killing and ...
A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... In 2008, several signs detailing his story were put up in northwest Mississippi. Robert Rausch for The New York Times In 1955, an ...
This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us o ...
On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till.” ...
By preserving key sites related to Emmett Till, his murder and its aftermath, this park site helps ensure that his story is honored and remembered. The national park site is comprised of three anchor ...
Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, about 30 miles from where the body of Emmett Till was pulled ... attempts to whitewash Till’s story are ongoing. “There is an going battle ...
The new monument would "protect places that tell the story of Emmett Till's too-short life and racially-motivated murder, the unjust acquittal of his murderers, and the activism of his mother ...
SEATTLE - In an exclusive interview, FOX 13 Seattle spoke with Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a surviving witness to the kidnapping of Emmett Till ... person to tell the story of what truly happened ...