‘Tell what happened': Pastor and last surviving eyewitness urges Christians to remember Emmett Till
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) — The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. still remembers clearly the moment as a teenager he thought he was going to die. Parker was 16 ye...
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) — The 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 a man pointed a flashlight and a pistol in his face. He shut his eyes tight, but the shot never came. The man moved on to the next bedroom and the next before finding and kidnapping his cousin — Emmett Till.