March 20, 2015
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center, housed in a glass-front former grocery store, currently houses a traveling exhibit from Delta State University that contains large, silk-screen panels detailing the 1955 trial based on newspaper accounts and a short introductory film about the trial. Photo courtesy Patrick Weems
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