Northern Star
The former home of Emmett and Mamie Till at 6427 South St. Lawrence Avenue is in the West Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago Aug. 26. The Chicago home of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching galvanized the civil rights movement, has been granted landmark status.
DeKALB The Chicago City council declared the former home of Emmett Till a national landmark Wednesday, Jan. 27.
Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager, was from the Woodlawn area on the Southside of Chicago. Till was brutally lynched while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi during the summer of 1955.
Till’s horrific death at the age of 14 was highly publicized and is said to have been a catalyst to the start of the modern civil rights movement.