In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission erected a historical marker next to the river where Till’s body was found. It was replaced at least nine times, after the signs were stolen ...

August 31, 1955 Three days later, Emmett Till's decomposed corpse is pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Moses Wright identifies the body from a ring with the initials L.T. In Chicago ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

Graball Landing is where Emmett Till’s disfigured body is believed to have been found early in the morning of Aug. 31, 1955, by a Black teenager fishing. Located across from the confluence of the ...

On Monday's episode of The View, the EGOT winner, 66 — who is earning rave reviews for her role as Alma Carthan, Emmett Till's grandmother, in the upcoming historical film — rejected one ...