'That's the last time we saw him.' Emmett Till's family members recall the fateful day he was seized from his house before being murdered. Two white men who were acquitted by an all-white jury later confessed to the killing. Watch tonight on ABC.
ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with two of Emmett Till's cousins, Rev. Wheeler Parkers, Jr. and Ollie Gordon, about the Justice Department’s decision to close the investigation into Till's death.Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, wrote in her memoir, the"Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America," that she had heard more than 200,000 Black people had moved to Chicago as a part of the Great Migration, including her own family.
"There was a freedom and an openness and just sort of a sense of community that we all tried to replicate in Chicago, but you understood when you were in the South, that that's where it all came from," she added.Emmett Till, who grew up in that familial environment in Chicago, was killed in Mississippi at the age of 14 while visiting family in 1955.
"Politics was a thing everybody was engaged in. Chicago was a political animal. It was a force," Obama said of the atmosphere at that time."Your alderman represented your neighborhood -- that represented you in the City Council. So you knew who your alderman was."
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