She accused Emmett, 14, of accosting her, and her testimony led to the acquittals of her husband and his half brother in a murder that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
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Killers’ Confession | The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi | PBS
Killers of Emmett Till Confess in Look Magazine [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Editors Note: In the long history of man’s inhumanity to man, racial conflict has produced some of the most horrible examples of brutality. The recent slaying of Emmett Till in Mississippi is a case in point. The editors of Look are convinced that they are […]
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Emmett Till: new memorial to murdered teen is bulletproof | The Guardian
A new memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated on Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The new marker is bulletproof. Till, 14, was kidnapped, beaten and killed in 1955, hours after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His body was found in a river days later. […]
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Willie Reed, who risked his life to testify in the Emmett Till murder trial, dies at 76 | The Washington Post
Willie Reed did not know Emmett Till, the young black man whose murder in the Mississippi Delta became one of the most infamous lynchings in the history of the Jim Crow South. Mr. Reed saw him only once — on Aug. 28, 1955, during the last hours of Till’s life — in the back of […]
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Emmett Till’s Cousin On Reopening Of Case: ‘An Opportunity For The Truth To Be Told’ | NPR
“It’s unfortunate that people have moved through their age and have had the ability to live their lives fully without coming forward or being held accountable.”
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“What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy – Hyperallergic
Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.
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