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What the Emmett Till Case Taught Me About Journalism and Mississippi’s Unfinished History

Report for America|November 15, 2018April 26, 2019

On the Ground in SUMNER, Mississippi — The courthouse where Emmett Till’s murderers were acquitted has been restored to look like it did during his 1956 trial, when his abduction, torture and murder shocked and shamed the nation. It’s an unassuming and stately building. Rows of identical brown seats face the flags of Mississippi and

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