Fourteen‑year‑old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
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 me - the fear of being killed just because I was black. This was the worst of my fears. I knew once I got food, the fear of starving to death would leave...
After the trial, bitterly ironic information about the father Emmett had never known, Louis Till, came to light. It was already widely reported that Louis Till had been a soldier in World War II at the time of his death. An Oct. 10, 1955 editorial inLifemagazine wrote that the elder Ti...
Danielle Deadwyler inTill.Lynsey Weatherspoon / Orion Pictures Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up to date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Before Emmett left for Mississippi from his...