‘We need to remember it’: Muncie exhibit puts legacy of Emmett Till, mother in focus

MUNCIE, Ind. — Emmett’s Till’s murder shook the nation in the 1950s and exposed the violence of discrimination and hatred in ...
PBS

The Murder of Emmett Till

In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the ...
The Telegraph

Gun used in Emmett Till’s lynching is displayed in a museum 70 years after his murder

The gun used in the murder of Emmett Till is on display at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025 in Jackson, Miss.. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The gun used ...
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70 years after Emmett Till’s death, the gun used to kill him has been put on display

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...
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70 years after Emmett Till's murder, Mississippi museum acquires gun used to kill him

JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a ...
Yahoo

Emmett Till's legacy honored at 70th death anniversary event in Jackson

The Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and partners began a four-day commemoration event on Thursday, Aug. 28, by holding a press conference to honor the 70th anniversary of the life and legacy of Emmett ...
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Gun used in murder of Emmett Till acquired by Mississippi museum 70 years after his death

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) — Officials with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till had been acquired 70 years after he ...