Scott Olson/Getty Images A plaque marks the gravesite for Emmett Till at a cemetery in Illinois Both the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have been alerted to the photo by ...

As David Snell prepares for the annual Martin Luther King Banquet in Idaho Falls, he reflects on the legacy of the Civil ...

Mamie's decision would make her son's death a touchstone ... thousand people in Chicago saw Emmett Till's corpse with their own eyes. When the magazine Jet ran photos of the body, black Americans ...

CHICAGO -- Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who ... Frishman’s photos are captivating ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The life and tragic death of Emmett Till is the focus of a new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum. On August 28, 1955, Emmett was kidnapped, tortured, killed and dumped in the ...

She is not given a full report of her ex-husband's death ... Till arrives at the Illinois Central Terminal to receive Emmett's casket. She is surrounded by family and photographers who snap her ...

CHICAGO — Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and ...