This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then every time it's been riddled with bullets – marks the spot where young Emmett Till's brutally-beaten body was pulled from ...

Racist jokes made the rounds: "Wasn't it just like a nigger, to try and cross the Tallahatchie River with a gin fan around his neck." The local Jackson Clarion-Ledger ran a story with the ...

On August 28, 1955, Emmett was kidnapped, tortured, killed and dumped in the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. He was only ...

is believed to be the place where Emmett’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in August 1955. In 2008, several signs detailing his story were put up in northwest Mississippi.

Museum Moments will feature the Little Tallahatchie Riverway Conservancy talking about the Park Along the River Project on ...