Statue of Emmett Till is unveiled on October 21, 2022 in Greenwood, Mississippi. 14-year old Emmett Till, a Black teenager in town from Chicago...
Vice President Kamala Harris, flanked by President Joe Biden, right, and Michelle Duster, right, great-granddaughter of civil rights pioneer Ida B....
Plaque marks the gravesite of Emmett Till at Burr Oak Cemetery May 4, 2005 in Aslip, Illinois. The FBI is considering exhuming the body of Till,...
Mamie Bradley, mother of lynched teenager Emmett Till, cries as she recounts her son's death, Washington DC, October 22, 1955.
Mrs. Mamie E. Bradley, mother of a 14 year old negro boy killed in Mississippi, appears at the trial of two white men charged at Sumner, Mississippi...
Mamie Bradley, mother of lynched teenager Emmett Till, meets white and African American members of the National Association for the Advancement of...
Witness. Sumner, Mississippi: Part time preacher Mose Wright whittles outside the courtroom where he was later called as a witness in the trial of...
New York: A huge crowd gathers around Mrs. Mamie Bradley outside the Williams Institutional C.M.E. Church in Harlem today where a meeting was held to...
After their acquittal in the Emmett Till trial, defendant Roy Bryant , smokes a cigar as his wife happily embraces him and his half brother, J.W....
Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York: A meeting to protest the acquittal in Mississippi of two white men accused of the murder of Emmett Louis Till,...
Cross Burned During Trial. Sumner, Mississippi: Marshal L.E. McNeer stands behind a crude wooden cross he found burning in Sumner, Miss., site of the...
Milam and his half brother, Roy Bryant were acquitted today in the Emmett Louis Till murder trial. The two still face a kidnapping charge in nearby...
This dramatic courtroom scene shows 64-year-old "Uncle Mose" Wright, Grand-Uncle of murdered Emmett Till, 14-year-old Negro boy, as he stood up in...
Witnesses in Murder Trial. Sumner, Mississippi: Three "surprise" witnesses were subpoenaed here in the trial of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who are...
"Wolf Whistle" Murder Defendants and Children in Court. Sumner, Mississippi: John W. Milam and Roy Bryant, on trial for the "wolf whistle" murder of...
All White Male Jury for "Whistle" Murder Trial. Sumner, Mississippi: Here is the all white, all male jury selected for the trial of Roy Bryant and...
Mother of "Whistle" Murder Victim Meets the Press. Sumner, Mississippi: Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett Louis Till, the 14 year old Negro boy...
To Trial in "Wolf Whistle" Murder. Sumner, Mississippi: J.W. Milam and his half brother, Roy Bryant are shown with sheriff H.S. Strider of...
Pencil sketch shows defendants John William 'JW' Milam and Roy Bryant during their trial in the Tallahatchie County Courthouse, Sumner, Mississippi,...
Pencil sketches show defendant Roy Bryant and one of one of his sons during his trial, with co-defendant JW Milam, in the Tallahatchie County...
Pencil sketch of American lawyer Jesse Josiah 'JJ' Breland , lead defense council in the trial of JW Milam and Roy Bryant in the Tallahatchie County...
Pencil sketch of defense attorney Jesse Josiah 'JJ' Breland lead defense council during the trial of JW Milam and Roy Bryant in the Tallahatchie...
Pencil sketch of defense attorney Jesse Josiah 'JJ' Breland lead defense council during the trial of JW Milam and Roy Bryant in the Tallahatchie...
Mrs. Roy Bryant, wife of the defendant who was on trial for the murder of a 14 year old Negro boy for whistling at his wife, and her sons are shown...
Mamie Bradley, mother of lynched teenager Emmett Till, stands with her father John Carson and the reporter who covered the Emmett Till trial, Jimmy...
Friends restrain grief-stricken Mrs. Mamie Bradley as her son's body is lowered into the grave after a four day, open casket funeral. The 15-year old...
Mrs Mamie Bradley reacts as the body of her son, Emmett Till, is lowered into his grave during the funeral, September 1955. Her son, fourteen year...
Pallbearers carry Emmett Till's casket out of Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, 4021 S. State Street, in Chicago on Sept. 3, 1955.
Collapses at Funeral. Chicago: Luke Ward , junior pastor and theology student in Church of God in Christ, is comforted by Bishop H.M. Hooper of Risen...
Chicago: Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett Till who was found slain in Mississippi where he was on vacation, is near hysteria as she attends...
Chicago: Mourners and curiosity seekers flock around entrance to Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ here during funeral services for Emmett Till...
Simeon and Maurice Wright cousins of the murdered Black boy, Emmett Till, sit in their home after being questioned. The boys and their father Moses...
Moses Wright holds some clothing of his murdered nephew, Emmett Till of Chicago kidnapped Sunday and whose body was found Wednesday in a river near...
Mamie Bradley, mother of lynched teenager Emmett Till, speaks with her father and a police interviewer, 1955.
Young Emmett Till wears a hat. Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi after flirting with a white woman.
Portrait of Emmet Louis Till. Till was a 14 year old African American boy from Chicago who was murdered by white men in Leflore County in Mississippi...