What's the legacy of Emmett Till's murder? A professor of History and Africana Studies reflects.
Historians discuss the social mores that pervaded the Emmett Till case.
Lynching served the broad social purpose of maintaining white supremacy in the economic, social, and political spheres.
The sight of Emmett Till's brutalized body pushed many who had been content to stay on the sidelines directly into the fight for civil rights.
The Mississippi Delta was the richest cotton-farming land in the country — sustained on the backs of slaves.
With the words "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," the Supreme Court reversed legalized segregation.
The murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam laid bare the racism that ruled Mississippi.
White segregationists who opposed school integration channeled their ire into a new movement: Citizens' Councils.
No one served time for the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. But history holds these three accountable.
Meet the boy whose murder ignited a movement.
In 1955, Mamie Till was unwillingly thrust into American history by her son's murder.
Moses Wright's testimony in the trial of his great-nephew's killers stands as one of the bravest moments in American history.
