Other fund recipients include a Mississippi bank founded by "most influential businessman in the United States," Mr. Booker T. Washington.

He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white woman in Money, Mississippi. During a recent visit to Milwaukee at Holy Redeemer Church ...

The last living person to see Emmett Till alive celebrated his memory in Milwaukee. Till was lynched in Mississippi after whistling at a white woman. "It was like a nightmare, but it wasn't a ...

I am,” Toni Morrison replied. Now, at the outset of 1986, the novelist was about to debut her first full-length play. This ...

In 1955, Emmett Till was 14 years old and growing up Black at Chicago, a part of the great migration of African Americans who had left terrorist southern states in the 1930s. His single mother did all ...