Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the tragedy today.

In August 1955, Emmett Till traveled from his home in Chicago ... made the courageous decision to hold an open-casket funeral, allowing the world to see the horrific brutality inflicted on her ...

Chicago Historian Sherman “Dilla” Thomas shared the history of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the impact she had on a small ...

My aunt and her husband honored that wish, so just days after the funeral, my father was on ... I’d heard about Emmett Till and knew that Black people were typically the victims of racial ...

Medgar Evers' death became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, sparking nationwide protests and pushing civil rights to the frontline of the world.

He also spent his days and nights on the backroads, investigating the deaths of Emmett Till and so many others whose names have ... Days later, thousands of young people marched after his funeral, ...

But we also know that the Civil Rights era, roughly 1955 to 1968 – from the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the assassination of Dr. King – means that Ed Sullivan had a ...

While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till ...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker shared untold stories about what happened after Till was found murdered.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...