Emmitt Louis Till was a 14-year-old Chicago boy who visited relatives in Money, Mississippi, in the summer of 1955. A careless comment made to a white woman in the store cost Till his life when two wh...
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All but closing the books on a crime that helped give rise to the civil rights movement, a grand jury has refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, a black teenager who w...
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The Justice Department would get more than $100 million for new prosecutors, FBI agents and other resources to revisit unsolved murders from the civil rights era under a bill passed by the House We...
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Legislation to beef up investigations into unsolved murders from the civil rights era looked like it would breeze through Congress. The House passed it 422-2 this summer. Its Senate sponsors includ...
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Congress moved on Tuesday toward setting aside $100 million to create a Justice Department unit devoted to investigating unsolved murders from the civil rights era.A bill named in honor of slain bl...
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The county where an all-white jury acquitted two white men of murdering black teenager Emmett Till for whistling at a white woman, a killing that horrified the nation, apologized Tuesday for how th...
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Even as the U.S. Department of Justice was announcing a fresh look at unsolved civil rights-era killings around the South, a Mississippi Delta prosecutor was closing the books on perhaps the most n...
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Today is Tuesday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2007. There are 125 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 28, 1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in ...
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Emmett Louis Till
No indictment in '55 Emmett Till slaying
