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 ...

Emmett Louis Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. Emmett was the only child of Louis and Mamie Till. He never knew his father, a soldier, who died during World War II. At the age of five ...

Johnson's black skin will dictate a desire parallel to the ... (And it remained dangerous half a century later, as Emmett Tilll would discover in 1955.) The fear of a powerful, uncontrollable ...