The brutal abduction and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.
"Till" is the new film about the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till - a crime that helped spark the civil rights movement. The movie has opened to rave reviews, and got us thinking about the October 24, 2004 "60 Minutes" report on Emmett Till's death from our late colleague Ed...
Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral so people could see her son’s mutilated body. Jet magazine published photos, and his case became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men charged in his death, but ...
A new film, Till, documents the decades-long pursuit of justice for the 14-year-old, whose 1955 killing galvanized a generation of activists.
rattling communities across the country and reigniting a widespread passion for the Civil Rights Movement. These photos were undeniably important to the dissemination of the story of Till’s murder, but it is the actions of young motherMamie Till Mobleythat pushed her...
Unless you know the story of Emmett Louis Till, you do not know the racial dynamics that led to the Civil Rights Movement. The murder of Emmett Till was the first media event of the Civil Rights Movement. It demonstrated the h...
Emmett Till and the Civil Rights Movement This confession had a tremendous impact on the consciousness of many people living in the Deep South. Anne Moody wrote: "Before Emmett Till's murder, I had known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was a new fear known to...
CHICAGO (CBS) --Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History Museum explores in greater depth what happened after his lynching. ...
Emmett Till (1941–55) was a Black teenager whose murder in Mississippi catalyzed the emerging civil rights movement in the United States.
Eight years to the day after Till’s death, some 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the iconic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Read more How Emmett Till’s Murder Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement The alleged motive behind Emmett Till's 1955 lynching may have...