I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till..

I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpo….

We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boy….

When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before..

Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, `That's ….

Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to te….

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly..