MS - U.S. reopens 1955 killing of Emmett Till, 14, abducted and mutilated *arrests*

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Tuesday would be Emmett Till's 82nd birthday.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1189664409/emmett-till-national-monuments-biden

 

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President Biden signs proclamation for Emmett Till National Monument in Chicago, Mississippi

President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Chicagoan and civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been his 82nd birthday.

abc7chicago.com

 

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LIVE | Biden establishes Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley monument

President Joe Biden signs proclamation to establish Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississ...

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Aug 15 '24

Tulsa to spend $1 million in honor of Emmett Till: Here’s where the money is going

A federal grant program honoring the murdered Black boy will be used for exhibits at the Greenwood Cultural Center and police training on forensics.

www.publicradiotulsa.org

''Tulsa is looking to use more than $1 million from the federal government earmarked for solving racially motivated cold cases. The city says it’s putting the funds toward education.

Tulsa was awarded the money through the U.S Department of Justice’s Emmett Till Cold Case program.

Till was a 14-year-old boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman.'

 

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"Inside the unassuming barn
where one of America's most evil crimes was committed."

Inside the barn where one of America's most evil crimes was committed

To passersby, it looks like any ordinary wooden barn - but the unassuming exterior hides a chilling truth. This is the scene of one of the most heinous crimes in American history.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

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Two of Emmett Till’s cousins, Wheeler Parker and Simeon Wright, witnessed Till’s kidnapping on the night of August 28, 1955 at the home of Moses Wright. They both describe their family’s background in Mississippi and Chicago, the incident at Bryant’s store, and the terror they felt when Bryant and Milan entered their home and took Till. Parker describes the funeral in Chicago, which drew thousands of people: “The solemn atmosphere there, you know, it’s just – it’s just unbelievable, I guess you could say. The air was filled with just, I guess, unbelief and how could it happen to a kid? People just felt helpless.”

The Murder of Emmett Till | Articles and Essays | Civil Rights History Project | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi. While visiting his relatives in Mississippi, Till went to the Bryant store with his cousins, and may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy Bryant...

www.loc.gov

 

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Graham Lee Brewer
Friday 22 August 2025

US releases Emmett Till investigation records ahead of 70th anniversary of his killing

The federal government has released thousands of pages of records on the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till

www.independent.co.uk

''Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of his killing, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records Friday on the lynching of Emmett Till.

The records in the National Archives, released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, detail how the Justice Department, the FBI, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights responded to the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Till. The records were released in accordance with the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018.

“Our thoughts are with the Till family,” the National Archives and Records Administration said in a news release.''