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‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived

Dedicated to the boy whose lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and invites audiences to reckon with racism in America

The Guardian - US · Sep 13

8 things to know about Wheeler Parker Jr., Emmett Till’s cousin, eyewitness to his lynching

Wheeler Parker, minister of a suburban Argo church, talks about Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching and brutal murder by white supremacists in Mississippi — and what triggered it.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 28, 2023

President Joe Biden creates Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Chicago and Mississippi

‘What Emmett did, he gave up a lot, but it helped a lot of people. And he still speaks from the grave,’ Emmett Till’s cousin, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., who witnessed Till being kidnapped, told the Sun-Times.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 26, 2023

He was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered. The horror haunts him still

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was just 16 years old when his cousin and best friend, Emmett Till, was lynched in 1955. Today, he is the last living witness of the kidnapping.

WEKU · Mar 12, 2023

There’s still plenty to say about the Emmett Till story

What prompts me to write is a new book about the Emmett Till story, A Few Days Full of Trouble, by Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 9, 2023

Mississippi town with Confederate monument gets Emmett Till statue

A Mississippi town with a Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager.

WEKU · Oct 21, 2022

Community with Confederate monument gets Emmett Till statue

A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till

The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2022

67 years after Emmett Till’s Chicago funeral, his best friend remembers him

CHICAGO — When the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. thinks of Emmett Till, he sees him running toward home plate with the grace of a lumbering Pullman freight train. Emmett’s slow speed lost their team a softball game, he remembers.

Chicago Tribune · Sep 6, 2022

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Till case

The white woman whose accusations prompted the lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities soon after the killing

The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2022

Emmett Till: woman whose accusation led to lynching won’t be charged

A white woman whose accusation against Emmett Till caused the black teenager to be lynched nearly 70 years ago will not be charged with kidnap or manslaughter, a grand jury found.

Evening Standard · Aug 10, 2022