Vincent Williams will direct "The Face of Emmett Till," which Emmett's mother Mamie Till-Mobley and playwright David Barr III ...

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

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

(KTAL/KMSS) – A play about Emmett Till that features a local cast will ... Emmett’s mother Mamie had an open-casket funeral for young Emmett because she wanted “the world to see” what ...

"Emmett Till was a fun-loving prankster ... Her famous words —"let the world see what they have done"— led to an open-casket funeral, helping to ignite the civil rights movement.