Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!In 1923, Wiley Carthan left Mississippi on the Illinois Central Railroad, heading for Chicago. He…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!We usually think of Emmett Till as a Chicagoan. He did live on the segregated South Side during his…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!In November 1951, ten-year old Emmett, his mother Mamie Till-Bradley, and her new husband Pink Bradley…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!Emmett Till’s funeral began shortly after his body came home to Chicago. The A. A. Rayner Funeral home…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks! Hours after Till’s body was discovered protruding from the Tallahatchie River, Mississippi authorities…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!The Emmett Till Memorial Commission has done more for the memory of Emmett Till than any other…