NPR : County Apologizes to Emmett Till Family: More than 50 years ago, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was kidnapped and murdered by two white men in the Mississippi community where he'd been visiting family. The killers were acquitted by an all-white jury at the Tallahatchie County courthouse. And it was at that courthouse on Tuesday that community leaders in the rural town of Sumner apologized to Till's family.
