Remembering Emmett Till: 70 Years Later
Seventy years ago, on August 28, 1955, the brutal murder of Emmett Till shocked the nation and became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. A 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, Till was visiting family in Money, Mississippi, when word got out that he flirted with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, at her family’s […]
Greenwood Tips Hat to Emmett Till’s Legacy with World’s Only Statue Honoring the Boy Who Ignited the Civil Rights Movement
When taking a walking tour or just a casual stroll through Greenwood, Mississippi’s Rail Spike Park, you can’t miss a 9-foot-tall bronze statue of a young, joyful boy dressed in a button-down shirt and slacks with his left hand tipping his hat and a smile on his face: this is 14-year-old Chicago native, Emmett Till. […]
Greenwood: Epicenter for Civil Rights Movement
In the middle of the 20th century, Greenwood and Leflore County witnessed a slow but certain shift in the winds of justice, a gathering spirit of hope, promise and determination that what had been accepted for so long would no longer be accepted. Those with deep roots in the Delta joined their voices with those […]