1955August–September 1955 · Tallahatchie and Leflore counties, Mississippi
Murder of Emmett Till and the Sumner trial
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago visiting family in the Mississippi Delta, was abducted and murdered after an encounter with a white woman at Bryant's Grocery in Money. An all-white jury in Sumner acquitted the two killers in about an hour; they later admitted the crime to a magazine. His mother's open-casket funeral in Chicago made his death a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
Sites
- Site 1: Tallahatchie County Courthouse and Emmett Till Interpretive Center, SumnerRestored 1955 courtroom, with an interpretive centre across the square.Map ↗
- Site 2: Bryant's Grocery, MoneyRoofless brick ruin of the store, with a civil rights trail marker.Map ↗
- Site 3: Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center, GlendoraSmall museum in an old cotton gin near where his body was found.Map ↗
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