Herman Johnson Jr., director of the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and History stands in an exhibit honoring Mississippi sports legends in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, on July 19, 2023.

The Tallahatchie County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Sumner, Mississippi. Here, two white men — Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam — were tried for murdering Emmett Till in September of 1955.

and the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where the trial of Till’s killers took place. “Any national monument honoring Till’s legacy should include those two anchor ...

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Robert Rausch for The New York Times In 1955, an all-white, all-male jury acquitted Emmett’s killers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, at this courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi. The men confessed to ...