Alexandra Watts

ON THE GROUND IN SUMNER, MISS.

What the Emmett Till case taught me about journalism and Mississippi’s unfinished history

SUMNER, Mississippi — The courthouse where Emmett Till’s murderers were acquitted has been restored to look like it

Nov 15, 2018

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