The 70th anniversary of Emmett Till's death is being marked by family, friends and officials repeating the fateful train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955.

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'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's death and testified at the trial of his murderers.

The Amtrak City of New Orleans will leave Chicago'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's death.

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