CHICAGO, Ill. — The home of slain Black teenager Emmett Till has been granted landmark status in Chicago. The Chicago City Council approved an ordinance Wednesday that protects the house on the South ...
JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a ...
On Aug. 28, 1955, a Black teenager from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi was kidnapped from his uncle’s home by two white men who beat, tortured, and shot him dead. Three days later, the ...