Face of Emmett Till Photos of beaten black teen an icon of civil rights movement.
“We did not need an Emmett Till movie,”wrote one Twitter usermatter-of-factly, hours after the trailer was released. Emmett Till’s name also began to trend on the platform around the same time, both as discussion picked up and in honor of what would have bee...
Not only have they been inactive on the Till case, but they have yet to take positive action in the kidnapping of Mutt Jones in Alabama, who was taken across the state line into Mississippi and brutally beaten. And as yet the recent lynchings of Rev. George Lee and LaMarr Smith in ...
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...