No one ever served prison time for the killing of Emmett Till, a fourteen year old black ... murder spurred the Civil Rights Movement. His mother, Mamie Till Mobley, explains, "When people saw ...

M. Spencer Green / AP Images In 1955, Emmett Till—a 14-year-old African-American visiting Mississippi from Chicago—was murdered after whistling at a white woman. His mother insisted that her ...

Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

A new national monument for Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, will consist of three federally protected sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Here are the locations of the sites → ...

In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi. The determination of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, to show the world ...

Both Till and Women Of The Movement tell the story of Mamie Till Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, as she reckons with the tragic death of her son. Her real-life decision to have an open casket at ...

The woman at the center of the Emmett Till murder case has spoken out for ... Tyson said Donham expressed feeling “tender sorrow” for Till’s mother, Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley.

Whitten’s granddaughter, Ellen Whitten, found the documents in April and with her mother donated them to the Emmett Till ...

The home on Chicago's Southside, which belonged to Till's mother, the late Mamie Till Mobley ... to be highlighted, as Emmett's killing was labeled as a staple in the civil rights movement.