Emmett Till's lynching in 1955 inspired many in the Civil Rights Movement and echoes through today's fights for justice.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Weeks after he published a book about the brutal slaying of Emmett Till, a North Carolina author received a call from FBI agents asking about his interview with a key witness ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – In 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago, was found dead in the waters of Mississippi. He has been tortured and lynched after being accused of whistling at a white ...

The last survivor of the historical horror widely known as “the lynching of Emmett Till” has died, leaving behind an infuriating amount of unanswered questions. Carolyn Bryant Donham died in hospice ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her in Mississippi in 1955 — causing his lynching, which galvanized a generation of activists ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new ...

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose claim that 14-year-old Emmett Till whistled at her during a grocery store visit led to the Black teenager’s brutal murder in August 1955, died of cancer ...

Carolyn Bryant Donham died Tuesday while in hospice care in Westlake, La., reports say Digital News Writer, PEOPLE The White woman who accused Black teen Emmett Till of making sexual advances toward ...