Beauchamp is one of the producers and writers of “Till,” which largely focuses onMamie Till-Mobley’s reaction to the loss of her only childand her evolution into a civil rights leader. Her 14-year-old son had traveled from Chicago to Mississippi to visit relatives in August 1955, and ...
Another key witness was an 18-year-old sharecropper named Willie Reed, who said that on the morning after Emmett Till was abducted, he saw Emmett on a truck with six people: Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam, two other white men, and two Black men who worked for Milam. Soon after, Reed said...
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...
(AP) — A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. The brutal slaying of the 14-year-old black teenager helped spur the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The 14-year-old African ...
In the decades after the brutal lynching of Emmett Till, the emphasis has usually been placed on the derelict grocery store where he allegedly wolf-whistled at a white woman. A new book shifts our gaze to a more important location: the barn where young Emmett was murdered by J.W. Mila...
Emmett Till (1941-1955) Background and Early Years: Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till was born on July 25, 1941 and was a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago who was...
"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...