{"id":44737,"date":"2025-08-28T03:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/train-ride-from-chicago-to-mississippi-marks-70th-anniversary-of-emmett-tills-death\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:34:25","slug":"train-ride-from-chicago-to-mississippi-marks-70th-anniversary-of-emmett-tills-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/train-ride-from-chicago-to-mississippi-marks-70th-anniversary-of-emmett-tills-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Train ride from Chicago to Mississippi marks 70th anniversary of Emmett Till&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The 70th anniversary of Emmett Till&#8217;s death is being marked by family, friends and officials Wednesday as they repeated the fateful train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>The ride is organized by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center and National Parks Conservation Association. Among the passengers will be Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., Till&#8217;s cousin and the last surviving eyewitness to his kidnapping, his wife Dr. Marvel Parker, and Juliet Louis, the widow of sharecropper Willie Reed who reported Till&#8217;s death and testified at the trial of his murderers.<\/p>\n<p>The Amtrak City of New Orleans left Chicago&#8217;s Union Station at 8:05 p.m. Wednesday night, following a communal prayer. It will arrive in Greenwood, Mississippi, on Thursday morning, which is the 70th anniversary of Till&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1955, the Rev. Parker and his cousin Till were just teenagers. They jumped on a train together from Union Station to Mississippi to visit family \u2014 but only one of them returned alive.<\/p>\n<p>While in Mississippi, Till, 14 at the time, was kidnapped in the dead of night and then brutally lynched after reportedly whitling at a white woman.<\/p>\n<p>Parker was in the house when Till was taken by white men at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They came to me first in this room,&#8221; Parker recalled in 2021. &#8220;And I was shaking like a leaf on a tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Till&#8217;s badly decomposed body was found three days later in the Tallahatchie River, his mother Mamie Till refused to allow a quick burial and instead brought his remains back to Chicago, where she insisted on an open casket funeral. <\/p>\n<p>That open casket funeral, and photos from it which were printed in newspapers nationwide, are credited with sparking the modern-day Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy years later, Parker boarded a train with a purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a saying in the Bible, &#8216;Less thou forget,'&#8221; he said. &#8216;It helps us to remember.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Parker took the solemn ride, he said it is essential never to forget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For one thing, 70 years ago, we didn&#8217;t think about what was going to happen,&#8221; said Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p>What did happen was that Till&#8217;s lynchers, Roy Bryant and John Milam, were tried and acquitted by a jury. The woman at the center of the whistling allegations, Carolyn Bryant,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-blood-of-emmett-till-carolyn-bryant-lied-timothy-tyson-new-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">confessed decades later to historian Timothy Tyson<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that her allegations against the teenager were false.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not here to stir up animosity or hate, but to remind people of how far we&#8217;ve come and how much progress we&#8217;ve made,&#8221; said Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p>While 70 years have passed, Till&#8217;s family said America still has healing to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m always reminded of the suffering and price that he paid, but we&#8217;ve come a long way \u2014 and his mother&#8217;s statement was, &#8216;I hope he didn&#8217;t die in vain,'&#8221; said Wheeler. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t die in vain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along for the ride on the train was the widow of Willie Reed, the man who publicly identified Till&#8217;s killers in court \u2014 in a first for a Black man during the Jim Crow era.<\/p>\n<p>The family has much on which to reflect on the long train ride.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/search\/author\/jermont-terry\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jermont  Terry<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Jermont Terry joined the CBS 2 team in October 2019. 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