HATE: You might be surprised at which group in Greenville is listed as among the 888 hate groups in America Apr 13, 2008
Emmett Till, and our long struggle to come to terms with his murder. The founding of the White Citizens' Council, and the effort to draw a color line down the middle of every institution in the Delta. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
Creature feature Apr 11, 2008
Afterward, the power couple and a cadre of friends, including Emerson president Jacqueline Liebergott and defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, went to Emerson's Semel Theater to see a staged reading of Langhart's one-act play, "Anne and Emmett." The play imagines a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, two teenage victims of bigotry and intolerance. Rating the pitch. (Boston Globe)
Shame, shame on Detroit’s mayor Apr 7, 2008
Yet, to listen to Jackson s brother Jermaine and Simpson s lawyer Johnnie Cochran, during their respective trials, they were some combination of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks and Kunta Kinte, targeted for the color of their skin, not the content of their criminal files. A modern-day lynching, said Jermaine, while Cochran said freeing Simpson would be a blow against racism. (Montana Standard, MT)
Pitts: Detroit's mayor abused black goodwill Apr 7, 2008
" O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson would be proud. I'm not comparing your alleged crimes to the murder and child molestation the courts say those two brothers didn't commit. All you did - allegedly - was swear under oath that you weren't intimately involved with your chief of staff, until a series of steamy text messages showed you two were getting busy like bunnies. Oh, and fire three cops who had gotten too close to the truth. Oh, and approve an $8.4 million settlement when lawyers produced... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Leaders still seek justice for hate crimes Apr 5, 2008
" MULTIMEDIA PDF: Read a summary of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act: (68k) Lewis would like to see at least $100,000 dedicated to reopening and investigating some of these unsolved hate crimes. GABEO President Tyrone Brooks said he remembered a meeting in Macon in March 1968, when he was told that King would come to Walton County to work for justice in the unsolved murders after he finished his work with the sanitation workers in Memphis. King was killed before he could return to... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Former judge, mayoral candidate R. Eugene Pincham dies Apr 4, 2008
A longtime civil rights activist, he called for investigations of police brutality and for national shrines to Emmett Till, Medgar Evers and other victims of racism. "He stood up for the little man, he refused to quit, he challenged the system to make it better for all people," his son said. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Ithaca College gives airing to censored Serling on Till case Mar 27, 2008
More than a half-century after it was twice censored by network television, Rod Serling's story on the notorious 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and his message about prejudice will finally be told the way Serling wanted ... "Serling seemed to struggle with network and sponsor censorship all his career but I believe his trying to tell the story of the Emmett Till case was the pinnacle of this battle," said Andrew Polak, the board president of the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation, a Binghamton-based... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
NEC sets season with 'Webeime' Mar 24, 2008
This spring, Scott also will direct The Ballad of Emmett Till at the Goodman. Links posted in this story. (Variety)
Anne and Emmett Mar 22, 2008
How ironic, Janet Langhart Cohen observed yesterday, that it is a black person, Barack Obama, who has been called up to the podium to answer to the deep racial divides that have existed in the United States for centuries. "Think of the irony of that. Only in America," said the playwright, author, former TV journalist and wife of former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen. (Townhall.com)
GCCISD department earns 12 Gold Star Awards Mar 22, 2008
Pryor-Newman received Gold Stars for her work on the GCCISD recruiting flyer and a photo of Victoria Walker Elementary students and staff, "Putting Our Heads Together for the New School." She also earned Gold Stars for the Robert E. Lee High School video, "A Day in the Life of a Gander," and the video of Baytown Junior School's award-winning history fair performance, "Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement.". Cook earned Gold Star Awards in writing for four feature... (Lake Houston Sun, TX)
GCCISD Public Information Office awarded Gold Stars Mar 22, 2008
She also earned Gold Stars for the Robert E. Lee High School video, "A Day in the Life of a Gander," and the video of Baytown Junior School's award-winning history fair performance, "Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement.". Cook earned Gold Star Awards in writing for four feature stories. (Lake Houston Sun, TX)
John Ed Cothran, 93, deputy who testified for prosecutors in Emmett Till case Mar 19, 2008
John Ed Cothran, a former sheriff's deputy who investigated the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, which galvanized the civil rights movement, has died of heart failure. He was 93. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
The Circuit at SXSW Mar 7, 2008
The Circuit - Blog on Variety. com - 1390000339 - 31690. (Variety)
Telling Emmett Till's story Feb 29, 2008
Telling Emmett Till's story ... A picture of the mutilated face of Emmett Till the teen from Chicago, Ill ... I originally went to college to become a civil rights attorney, so I could battle the kinds of things that happened to me and Emmett Till, said Beauchamp. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Weekend bets Feb 23, 2008
Emmett Till exhibit This newly opened traveling exhibit at Columbus-Lowndes Public Library remains on display through March. The exhibit explores issues surrounding Till's murder and the subsequent trial. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
52 years later, Emmett Till scholars still probing case Feb 23, 2008
Mamie Till-Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, the black teen from Chicago, Ill ... The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi ran in LOOK Magazine, introduced by the words, Disclosed here is the true account of the slaying in Mississippi of a Negro youth named Emmett Till ... Huie's truth, which introduced three new elements, according to Chris Metress, author of The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative, has thrived through the decades. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Jordan presses on for Delta site Feb 17, 2008
He will continue to be an advocate for a Delta location, regardless of whether it's in Greenwood, because he feels strongly that the birthplace for the struggle began in Leflore County, where Emmett Till was murdered. The museum will feature artifacts and highlight areas of the state that are important to the civil rights movement. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
The Jena Six -- and Other Scams Feb 15, 2008
But if history is about truth, not myth, that news coverage deserves another look, before the Jena Six enter the history books alongside Emmett Till and "the Scottsboro Boys." ... But if history is about truth, not myth, that news coverage deserves another look, before the Jena Six enter the history books alongside Emmett Till and "the Scottsboro Boys.". (Townhall.com)
Foundation spurs young writers Feb 15, 2008
In fall, the hope is to create a residency and re-enactment of The Ballad of Emmett Till. The play's world premiere is in Chicago in May. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Boston is ready to get back in the act Feb 12, 2008
(The one-act play is a fictional conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till. "This play reminds the world what happens when intolerance is allowed to rule the world," said Langhart. (Boston Globe)
Revisiting a dark corner of Mississippi's history (2/10) Feb 10, 2008
The presentation at the library Monday night on the Emmett Till murder was informative, moving and unexpectedly encouraging ... Three months later in Montgomery, Rosa Parks said that it was Emmett Till's murder that gave her strength to do what she did, start a revolution. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Negro Ensemble Company Proudly Announces the Arrival of Oz Scott Feb 5, 2008
This spring, Scott will be opening The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza at The Goodman Theatre. He is currently working with Daniel Beaty on his new play Resurrection. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Black history takes a front seat in Callaway Jan 31, 2008
The argument comes from research by University of Missouri-Columbia professor Clenora Hudson-Weems, who wrote the book The Definitive Emmett Till: Passion and Battle of a Woman for Truth and Intellectual Justice. When a child is robbed of his life, leaving behind utter devastation, one impulsively and unhesitatingly reacts, Hudson-Weems said in a Fulton State Hospital press release. (Fulton Sun, MO)
The Race Card Jan 22, 2008
He implicitly evoked the experience of blacks such as Emmett Till, a young black man from Chicago who was tortured and killed by whites after teasing a white woman in Mississippi. He compared milquetoast Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee to an angry mob armed with firearms and strong rope. (Slate)
Goldsby mines literary repository, reading history out of texts to write about Americas history of lynching Jan 11, 2008
The culmination of her research is a highly narrative work that charts the history of lynching from the 1880s to the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955. Like a literary detective, Goldsby uses several means to tell her story. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Local author to talk about his recently published book Dec 22, 2007
Miller was 10 years old in 1955 when his schoolmate Emmett Till, age 14, was brutally murdered in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman, an incident that energized the nascent Civil Rights Movement. His recently released book, "The Journey to Chatham," details the historic events seen through the eyes of Emmett's friends. (Windsor Journal, CT)
Sen. who stalled cold-case bill explains position Dec 15, 2007
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin called for unanimous consent for the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, only for Coburn to object, stymieing the legislation once again ... To say the Justice Department said additional funding was unnecessary is simply untrue, said Alvin Sykes of Kansas City, president of the Emmett Till Justice Campaign and architect of the Till bill. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Cold cases: Solving crimes should be priority Dec 11, 2007
Under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, the Justice Department would get $10 million a year to examine civil rights killings before 1970. Another $3. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Bill to energize old civil rights cases currently stalled Dec 10, 2007
The bill is named after Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman ... Coburn's spokesman, John Hart, acknowledged that Coburn would try to amend the Emmett Till bill by cutting its cost. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Smells Like Team Spirit Dec 5, 2007
We weren t witnessing a revival of the Emmett Till Era of lynchings, as the pundits insisted, but another example of the O.J. Simpson Age of stars athletes whose off-field misdeeds are excused until they finally go too far. The Jena Six hadn t been despised outcasts: they were the best football players in a gridiron-obsessed small town. (The American Conservative)
Year of 'Dialogue on Race' continues Nov 26, 2007
Additionally, members of the institute, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission and more than 400 other people gathered at the Sumner Courthouse for a memorial ceremony. At the event, the ETMC officially read a resolution, apologizing to the family of Emmett Till and dedicated a marker commemorating the murder case. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
7 honored as ‘Men of Excellence’ by student union Nov 22, 2007
ALVIN SYKES A nationally known Civil Rights activist, Sykes gained national attention for his work in re-opening the Emmett Till case and leading the Emmett Till Justice campaign including the introduction of a bill authorizing 11. 5 million to fund the unit. (Kansas City Kansan, KS)
Museum a real attraction: Upgraded facility drawing acquisitions Oct 29, 2007
An object that's coming is a collage piece by St. Louis artist John Rozelle that's an image of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder mobilized the civil rights movement. "We didn't have one before, and it is a blockbuster.". (The Clarion-Ledger)
Marchers Demand Boot Camp Justice Oct 24, 2007
" Michael Vick, the black Atlanta Falcons quarterback charged in an illegal dogfighting case, likewise arose in speeches by Curry and others. One group of protesters carried a banner reading, "Kill a Dog, Go to Jail; Kill a Black Child, Go Free. " "How easy it is for us to be convicted of something; how hard it is for us when we're the victims to have others convicted," said Benjamin Crump, attorney for the Anderson family, who stood at the podium with parents Gina Jones and Robert Anderson.... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Rally participants demand probe of civil rights killings Oct 23, 2007
The bill is called the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, named after a 14-year-old African American who was brutally slain while on a summer vacation in Money in 1955. Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP, said the state should mirror the commitment at the federal level, including the establishment of a cold-case unit to dig up new evidence. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Ernest Withers; documented black history Oct 22, 2007
to cover the trial of two white men accused in the slaying of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who allegedly had whistled at the wife of one of the defendants. An all-white jury acquitted the pair, who later admitted their guilt. (Boston Globe)
Ernest C. Withers, 85; photographer documented modern U.S. black history Oct 18, 2007
to cover the trial of two white men accused of the grisly murder of Emmett Till, an African American teenager from Chicago who had allegedly whistled at the wife of one of the defendants. An all-white jury acquitted the pair, who later admitted their guilt. (Los Angeles Times)
Ernest C. Withers, 85, civil rights photographer Oct 17, 2007
Withers was the only photographer who covered the entire trial of those charged with killing Emmett Till, a black teenager who was said to have whistled at a white woman. He also photographed the funeral of Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist who was killed in 1963, and the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
THIRTY SOMETHING NOTEBOOK: Learning from elders' wisdom Oct 14, 2007
One boy - Emmett Till - died for allegedly whistling. Medgar Evers and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. died for attempting to secure basic rights for their African-American brothers and sisters. (Freeport Journal-Standard, IL)
Hate crimes are dealt with more severely for a reason Oct 11, 2007
As an example, recall the murder of Emmett Till. In August 1955, Till, a 14-year-old African-American, was lynched in the town of Money, Miss. (The Daily Lobo, NM)
2nd jury in Till case acted with courage Oct 7, 2007
There really, though, is no comparing the decision of a 1955 jury that let the killers of Emmett Till go free, and the conclusion of a grand jury 52 years later that there was no one living left to indict ... The object of Emmett Till's ill-fated wolf whistle had become the target of those clamoring for what they said was justice, but sounded a lot more like revenge. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Till family finds closure in apology Oct 4, 2007
In 1955, Tallahatchie County did nothing to help the family of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder helped spark the civil rights movement ... But for now, the Emmett Till chapter of Mississippi history is closed. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
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Decades later, an apology for Emmett Till slaying Oct 2, 2007
Emmett Till is shown at home in Chicago about six months before he was killed while visiting Mississippi ... It's where two white men were tried and found not guilty by an all-white jury of brutally slaying Emmett Till, a husky 14-year-old black kid visiting from Chicago ... An official apology from the county-appointed Emmett Till Memorial Commission will be read Tuesday in front of the courthouse. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Racism in America: Alive and well in 2007 Sep 27, 2007
But yet in the midst of all of this discussion and debate we are only just now beginning to catch up with the people or persons who murdered Emmett Till and Medgar Evers and those who bombed the church with those beautiful little girls. Some would say, "... But that stuff doesn't happen." Unfortunately for all of us that is not true. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
Taking the Lead on Africa in the U.S. Congress Sep 26, 2007
His grandfather, a Baptist pastor in Mississippi in a county next to the one where Emmett Till was killed, had been a missionary in Liberia for a year in the early 1880s. Diggs gained national attention from his presence at the Till trial in 1955, and he continued to take a leading role on national civil rights issues as he gained seniority. (allAfrica.com)
Emmett Till: Opening the doors to understanding Sep 24, 2007
The Emmett Till Memorial Commission is calling for a dialogue between blacks and whites in the Mississippi Delta town of 407 people, and its opening up an old wound to begin the conversation ... We the citizens of Tallahatchie County realize that the Emmett Till case was a terrible miscarriage of justice ... We wish to say to the family of Emmett Till that we are profounding sorry for what was done in this community to your loved one. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
'Little Things' often lead to resentment between the races, lecturer says Sep 15, 2007
She recalled the murder of young Emmett Till in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman and the 1963 bombing of an Alabama church that killed black children. She remembered how the old folks in her neighborhood in Washington D.C. used to warn her how whites are evil people. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Today in History August 28 Aug 28, 2007
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncles home in Money, Miss. by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally murdered three days later. (MSNBC -- Race)
Click for Full Story Aug 28, 2007
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi, by 2 white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally murdered 3 days later. In 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president. (KWTX.com, TX)
Johnson's Blues Trail marker missing Aug 26, 2007
Last weekend, the Emmett Till Memorial Highway sign on U.S. 49 was discovered missing. Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed while visiting relatives in Money on Aug. 28, 1955, after he reportedly whistled at a white woman. (Greenwood Commonwealth, MS)
Emmett Till marker replaced Aug 25, 2007
The Department of Transportation has replaced the marker placed on U.S. 49 in memory of Emmett Till. The roadside marker near Greenwood commemorating the civil rights-era death of Emmett Till has been replaced ... Jordan, one of the sponsors of a bill in 2005 that named a 38-mile stretch of the highway the "Emmett Till Memorial Highway," sounded the alarm after the sign disappeared. (Greenwood Commonwealth, MS)
Emmett Till roadside marker disappears Aug 22, 2007
The historical roadside marker commemorating the civil rights-era death of Emmett Till has disappeared from U.S. 49 near Greenwood, officials said Monday ... David Jordan, D-Greenwood, was one of the authors of a bill in 2005 that named a 38-mile stretch of U.S. 49 the "Emmett Till Memorial Highway." The marker was placed near the highway as a tribute to Till ... "It's the only thing we have visible to remember the lynching of Emmett Till.". (Greenwood Commonwealth, MS)
In hot pursuit Aug 8, 2007
Remember Emmett Till got killed for whistling at a white lady. So, its probably gonna take some time for that open-mindedness to come about totally. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Bus Driver A "Hero Among Us" Jul 27, 2007
One trip participant, Selesta Shurney, appreciates the fact that Walters has given her the chance to see the U.S. She said, "It made me realize that it's more than California; it's more than Pomona. It's so historical (with) Martin Luther Kind, Rosa Parks, Emmett Till and stuff like that.". Teenagers also get the valuable experience of being able to visit colleges. (CBS News)
Charles Tisdale, 80; used Mississippi newspaper to fight bias Jul 14, 2007
He covered the 1955 murder of Emmett Till near Money, Miss. and the uproar surrounding efforts to integrate schools in Little Rock, Ark. (Los Angeles Times)
Mary Wilson: Teaching as a calling Jul 6, 2007
Recently, when studying about the Civil Rights Movement, she talked to them about Emmett Till. "The minute you tell them about something, theyre on the computer and into the encyclopedias," she says of her students. (Troy Montgomery Herald, NC)
We should all keep in mind the words of Scout Finch Jun 30, 2007
Several have been reopened, and although one Emmett Till will not result in any new prosecutions, others have resulted in convictions. The most recent was James Ford Seale's conviction on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
Open door to horrid truths Jun 22, 2007
"I decided that I would start with his feet, gathering strength as I went up," said Mamie Till, Emmett Till's mother ... When Emmett Till's broken body was sent from Mississippi back to Chicago, his mother took one look at her son's body and demanded an open-casket funeral ... Fifty-two years ago, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, was beaten and shot to death for allegedly whistling at a white woman in segregated Mississippi. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
New funds unneeded for 'cold' civil rights murders Jun 22, 2007
On Wednesday, the U.S. House passed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, sponsored by my fellow Georgian, Rep ... The case of the bill's namesake, Emmett Till, illustrates the point. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
House OKs bill to reopen civil rights murders Jun 21, 2007
The bill, passed 422-2, is named in honor of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was beaten and murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman. His killers were never convicted. (MSNBC -- Race)
Cold case funding bill clears House Jun 21, 2007
President Bush is expected to sign the legislation known as the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, named after a Chicago teenager who was beaten and killed while on a summer vacation in Money in 1955. Moore's brother, Thomas, has thrown his weight behind the legislation since it was first introduced two years ago. (Jackson Clarion Ledger)
House Bill Would Reopen Civil Rights Era Murder Cases Jun 21, 2007
The bill is named in honor of Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who was beaten and murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman. His killers were never convicted. (KWTX.com, TX)
Readers speak out over Seale trial Jun 16, 2007
In 1955, it was Emmett Till. In 1964, it was the three civil rights workers in Neshoba County and to date only 23 KKKers have been convicted of the thousands of murders of color committed in Mississippi from 1860-1969. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Outcome 'a salve to a lot of open wounds' Jun 15, 2007
Sykes, who was involved in the successful push to have the FBI reinvestigate the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, watched the trial all week. He called the guilty verdicts proof that Mississippi, and the South, have changed. (The Clarion-Ledger)
