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Related Historical Markers
By Mark Hilton, September 14, 2014
Bryant's Grocery Marker (Rear)
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| 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 Bridges Avenue at Gipson Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Bridges Avenue. |
| | 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 |
| 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 |
Apr. 28, 2024
