Emmett Till
This year marks nearly seven decades since the 14-year-old boy from the South Side was killed in Mississippi. Here’s a look at how the Sun-Times covered his death in 1955, including Mamie Till Bradley’s decision to show the world the brutality he endured at the hands of white supremacists.
Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. said Thursday, “It is up to all of us to be accountable to the challenges we still face in overcoming racial injustice.”
The Mississippi lynching of 14-year-old Till became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago.
Invitees to the Thursday screening include the cast of the film, the family of Emmett Till, students, civil rights leaders, historians and families of victims of hate crimes.
Researchers last year found an unserved search warrant on an accuser connected to the Chicago teen’s torture and death. Till’s cousin wants the warrant served on Carolyn Bryant.
Focal point of Collaboraction’s court transcript adaptation is the strong ensemble playing slayers, lawyers, witnesses and the teen’s steely mother.
What prompts me to write is a new book about the Emmett Till story, “A Few Days Full of Trouble,” by Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson.
The house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.
The original arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham should be served. Justice demands she not evade accountability in Till’s lynching.
The question for a prosecutor considering possible charges would be whether anything more than headlines would result from an arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham.
A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week.
“Lynching is not a relic of the past,” said Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Emmett Till bill, championed by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., makes lynching a federal hate crime.
Rep. Bobby Rush, in an Axios interview, said Paul wanted to do more than modify the measure — he was “trying to gut the bill.”
This Sun-Times editorial was published Sept. 27, 1955, just after the two men charged with brutally murdering 14-year-old Emmett Till were acquitted of the murder charge. The paper expressed disgust at the “nauseating” verdict. This is part of a 75-anniversary project highlighting decades of exceptional journalism.
This story was published on Sept. 8, 1955, when Emmett Till’s mother announced she would be going to Mississippi to testify at the trial of the two men who brutally murdered her teenage son. This is part of a 75-anniversary series highlighting decades of journalism coverage
This story on Emmett Till was published on Sept. 4, 1955, the day after thousands came to pay their respects at the funeral of the murdered teenager. Emmett’s mother’s insistence that his brutally beaten body be shown to the world was a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement. This is part of a 75-anniversary series highlighting decades of journalism coverage
This story was published the day after Emmett Till’s body was found beaten, bullet-pierced and weighed down with iron and barbed wire in the muddy waters of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River on Thursday, Sept. 1, 1955. It is part of a 75th anniversary series highlighting decades of important journalism coverage.
This story was published on Sept. 2, 1955, when Emmett Till’s body arrived by train back in his hometown Chicago from Mississippi. The brutal murder of this teenager and his mother’s insistence that his brutally beaten body be shown to the world was a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement. This is part of a 75-anniversary series highlighting decades of journalism coverage.
This editorial was published on Sept. 2, 1955, when Emmett Till’s body arrived home by train to Chicago from Mississippi. Till’s brutal lynching murder and his mother’s insistence that the world not turn away from what was done to her son was a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement. This is part of a 75-anniversary series highlighting decades of journalism coverage
This story was originally published in the Chicago Daily News the day Emmett Till’s body was found beaten, bullet-pierced and weighed down with iron and barbed wire in the muddy waters of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1955. It is part of a 75-anniversary series highlighting decades of important journalism coverage.
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