Chicago Church Hopes to Raise $12M to Restore Site of Emmett Till's Funeral

Chicago church hopes to raise $12M to restore site of Emmett Till's funeral

Bronzeville's Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, part of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, is restoring the building.

New details came to light decades after the murder of Emmett Till

Emmett Till’s death shocked millions of people across America and was a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement, but many facts about his life and his murder remained unknown for decades. More than 60 years after his death in 1955, new reporting is re-igniting interest in Till’s case and spreading his story to a new generation. NBC Chicago’s Marion Brooks started digging deeper into Till’s story in 2020, and her docuseries The Lost Story of Emmit…

Emmett Till’s Birthday Remembered

Emmett Till was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941. He would have turned 84 years old today. A bright, fun-loving child, Emmett overcame early challenges, including polio, to grow into a lively 14-year-old who loved telling jokes, playing baseball, riding bikes and fishing. That summer, during a visit with relatives in Mississippi, Emmett was abducted and brutally murdered in August 1955 after being falsely accused of offending a white woman — an …

Remembering Emmett Till on His 84th Birthday

July 25 is Emmett Till’s birthday, the Chicago-born teen whose brutal lynching in 1955 became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Then just 14 years old, Till was visiting family in Mississippi when he was falsely accused by Carolyn Bryant Donham of whistling at her and making sexual advances at her family’s store, a claim she later recanted in 2007. The accusation led her husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam to abduct, tortu…