"His mother was well-prepared as if she was meant for this moment," said Parker. Deborah Watts, left, cousin of Emmett Till prsents a plaque to Mary Rogers, Principal of James McCosh Elementary ...

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

In 1955, Emmett Till was 14 years old and growing up Black at Chicago, a part of the great migration of African Americans who had left terrorist southern states in the 1930s. His single mother did all ...