a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History Museum explores in greater depth what happened after his lynching. The exhibit, "Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till," portrays ...

Today, Emmett Till is a civil rights icon ... The gun used to murder Till isn’t melted down or in a museum but is owned by a white crop duster pilot, whose father was gifted the murder weapon ...

The wax museum gives students at the predominantly ... including its dark chapters like the torture and murder of Emmett Till, a Black 14-year-old, by a white mob in Mississippi in 1955.

In 2007, the commission offered a formal public apology to the Till family. Over the following years, the group also restored the courthouse and established a museum, the Emmett Till Interpretive ...

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 ...