CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been 68 years since Emmett Till's body was in a Chicago church for his funeral, marking the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Now, Roberts Temple Church Of God In Christ is ...

CHICAGO — Last week marked what would have been Emmett Till’s 80 th birthday had he not been killed by a group of white men in Mississippi in 1955. The 14-year-old Black teen was murdered after being ...

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ALSIP, Ill. (WLS) -- Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, were honored Thursday in the Chicago area with a gift from the people of Mississippi. Emmett Till's body was pulled from the ...

Moves made by Donald Trump’s administration could pave the way for the removal of a national monument honoring Emmett Till, an icon of the civil rights movement, risking a public outcry. Trump’s ...

At the South Side church where Emmett Till’s open casket funeral took place nearly 68 years ago, elected officials and other leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil a temporary sign marking the recently ...

The Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was tortured and killed in 1955 has been acquired by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center (ETIC). The ETIC bought the barn outside Drew, Mississippi, thanks ...

Memorials to the teen murdered in Mississippi have been defaced before. — -- Vandals in Mississippi apparently shot up a memorial to Emmett Till, an African-American teen whose murder in 1955 ...