Emmett Till memorialised in monument that includes Chicago church
United States RNS For Rev Wheeler Parker, Jr, it was the moment he had long awaited and once could not have envisioned. The older cousin of Emmett Till, Parker is the sole remaining witness to the 1955 kidnapping of the Black teenager, who was dragged from his bed to face a lynching that galvanised the […]
“Tell what happened”: Pastor and last surviving eyewitness urges Christians to remember Emmett Till
Wheaton, Illinois, US RNS Rev Wheeler Parker, Jr, still remembers clearly the moment as a teenager he thought he was going to die. Parker was 16-years-old, visiting family in Mississippi, when he woke in the early morning hours to the sound of voices in the house. Moments later, the door to his bedroom opened and […]