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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
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
This site is where a black reporter, James Hicks, discovered information pertinent to the trial for the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955.
Here a young woman revealed to Hicks the real name of Leroy “Too Tight” Collins, as well . . . — — Map (db m89872) HM
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
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
On August 31, 1955, Woodrow Jackson prepared Emmett Till's
body here at the Tutwiler Funeral Home, to return to Emmett's
mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in Chicago. Emmett's uncle, Crosby
Smith, had to sign a document promising not to open the . . . — — Map (db m173985) HM
This is the site where Till's body was removed from the river. It was then taken to Greenwood, MS. Then the body was sent back to Money, MS for burial. Via a phone call from Till's mother "not to bury her son", the body was then taken back to . . . — — Map (db m309719) HM
