A brutal kidnapping, beating and murder in the Jim Crow south. The 14-year-old victim was Emmett Till, and his horrendous death drove much of the American Civil Rights Movement. Last week ...

Wheeler Parker Jr. was worried about the words that might come out of his cousin’s mouth. His cousin, Emmett Till, you see, ...

Family has requested the Jackson Police Department to assist in investigation into Dau Mabil's death, saying they suspect ...

No one was arrested in connection with either murder. Emmett Till's death had a powerful effect on Mississippi Civil Rights activists. Medgar Evers, then an NAACP field officer in Jackson ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker, the cousin and childhood friend of Emmett Till, recently spoke at KU's Spencer Museum of Art sharing his ...

Wheeler, the last surviving witness to the kidnapping of Till, said the prankster kid with a speech impediment and the ...

The story we think we know about the lynching of Emmett Till's is a lie. Pulitzer-nominated investigative reporter, Jerry Mitchell, journey's across the United States to reveal the conspiracy to ...

This national park site honors the family of Emmett Till, preserves the history of one of the country's most horrific hate crimes, and commemorates the struggle for civil rights that continues today.

For sure in this township … if it was Blacks that did this there would be no hesitation … they would already at DCP (Dauphin ...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker, 85, was a 16-year-old Chicago resident on vacation during August 1955 in the Mississippi Delta when friend and cousin Emmett ... of Till’s death and how the United ...