The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and partners began a four-day commemoration event on Thursday, Aug. 28, by holding a press conference to honor the 70th anniversary of the life and legacy of Emmett ...

The commemoration of 70 years since Emmett Till's death is being marked by family, friends and officials Wednesday as they repeated the fateful train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) announced that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till had been acquired 70 years ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The gun used in the 1955 death of Emmett Till was now on display at the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Emmett Till, a ...

Seventy years ago this Thursday, a group of white men killed a 14-year-old Black boy in a barn just outside Drew, Miss. The boy was from Chicago. The murder became one of the most famous cases in ...

A church in south Phoenix helped paint the picture of a boy whose life and death helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the ...