The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights movement is now on display at a museum in the Deep South. Emmett was just ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has announced that the gun and its holster used in 14-year-old Emmett Till’s murder have been acquired. The Foundation for ...
The gun is now part of a permanent exhibition about TIll at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Mississippi Department of Archives and History After seven decades, the gun thought to have ...