Emmett died. And he died because of a number ... the founder of the Till archives and co-author of a book about media coverage of Till’s murder, shared the documents with The Washington Post ...

Family members of the two known living survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre met for the first time on Thursday with detectives from the DOJ.

Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, about 30 miles from where the body of Emmett Till was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955. The 14-year-old’s savage murder is widely ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is Emmett Till's cousin and traveled with him from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955. Sadly, Parker returned alone.

This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till from multiple perspectives — cultural, geographical and ...

In an exclusive interview, FOX 13 Seattle sat down with Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a surviving witness to the historic ...

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 ...

photographed Aug. 28, 2009. The town's courthouse already bears a noteriety for serving as the site of the 1955 Emmett Till murder trial. Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago resident visiting family ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother ... all-male jury acquitted Emmett’s killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, at this courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi. The men confessed ...

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 ...

Wright Thompson tells a piercing biography about a barn in the Mississippi Delta, the history of the surrounding landscape ...