A Mississippi sheriff says in a new court filing that there's no point in serving an arrest warrant on a white woman in the 1955 kidnapping that led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till ...

Black teenagers Wheeler Parker and Emmett Till were on vacation from Chicago when they stepped into the white-owned ...

“Carolyn Bryant Donham’s actions, and the unserved warrant proves her culpability,” the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation said on Facebook.

Members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation were among the group that found the arrest warrant in that Mississippi courthouse basement on June 30. This foundation, founded in 2005, is a nonprofit ...

The Mississippi arrest warrant for “Mrs. Roy Bryant” was ... 1955 kidnapping that led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till because last year a grand jury decided not to indict the ...

The decision comes despite recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and the 87-year-old Donham’s unpublished memoir. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin and the last living ...

Emmett Till's cousin reflected on being the last surviving witness to his abduction.

I recently sat for an interview with the Rev. Wheeler Parker, an activist and author who is the last surviving witness to the abduction of Emmett Till, his cousin, in 1955. Ever since Till’s ...

I cover the intersection of art and travel. Emmett Till with his mother, Mamie Bradley, ca. 1950. To expose the horror of her 14 year-old's ... [+] lynching, she ordered an open coffin funeral 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.

The cousin and childhood best friend of Emmett Till will speak at a KU event this week. The talk will be livestreamed.