*An abstract painting of Emmett Till currently featured in New York’s Whitney Museum of Art reimagines the searing image of the murdered teen disfigured and unidentifiable following his brutal murder ...

Emmett Till’s original glass-topped coffin, now on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stands as a powerful reminder of his mother’s courage and the ...

NMAF copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "While visiting family in Mississippi in August 1955, Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman working behind the counter of ...

JACKSON, Miss. — It was the image of Emmett Till’s disfigured body, lying in an open casket for the world to see, that helped galvanize a movement. He had been beaten, but bullets also played a role ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Civil Rights activist and Till family member, shares his experience growing up with Emmett Till and reflects on America in the 1950s compared to today. In 1955, 14-year-old Emmett ...

The short life of American Civil Rights Movement icon Emmett Till was remembered on Continental Square in York 70 years after his murder in Jim Crow South era Mississippi, as part of a national ...