On Money Road (County Road 518) at County Road 24, on the left when traveling north on Money Road.
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Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till came to this site to buy candy in August 1955. White shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant accused the black youth of flirting with her, and shortly thereafter, Till was abducted by Bryant's husband and his half . . . — — Map (db m77418) HM
On North Court Street at West Court Street, on the right when traveling east on North Court Street.
In August 1955 the body of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth from Chicago, was found in the Tallahatchie River. On September 23, in a five day trial held in this courthouse, an all-white jury acquitted two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, . . . — — Map (db m89870) HM
On Main Street at Swan Lake Road, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
The September 1955 acquittal of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till fueled further racial violence. Clinton
Melton was an outspoken black man who was gunned down here 2-1/2 months later by Milam’s friend Elmer . . . — — Map (db m89871) HM
On Thomas Street 0.1 miles south of Gipson Avenue, on the left when traveling south.
This site was the home of J.W. Milam, who along with his half-brother, Roy Bryant, murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955. The two men confessed to journalist William Bradford Huie, during which Milam claimed he and his brother . . . — — Map (db m89876) HM
Near Thomas Street 0.1 miles east of Gipson Avenue.
An old metal fan used for ginning cotton was taken from this gin, the M.B. Lowe's Glendora Gin, by Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam. After shooting the 14-year-old Emmett Till in the head, the men attached the fan, weighing over 70 pounds, to Till’s . . . — — Map (db m89882) HM
