Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!The Emmett Till Memorial Commission has done more for the memory of Emmett Till than any other…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!In December 1955, J. W. Milam’s neighbor (and Till murder accomplice) Elmer Kimbrell murdered African…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!The Emmett Till Memorial Commission originally planned for only a single river site sign to mark the…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!In 2008, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission (ETMC) erected a sign at this spot. Although nothing…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!On Sunday, August 28, 1955, just hours after Till was killed, Leflore County Sheriff George Smith…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!Emmett Till was kidnapped from this location on the evening of August 28, 1955. He was staying at the…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!On Sunday, September 18, 1955, reporter James Hicks of the Afro-American was in Sumner preparing to…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!Although Mound Bayou is 42 miles away from Sumner, it played an essential role in the Emmett Till…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!On September 19, 1955, at 9:25 am, the trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett…

Please help us make the Emmett Till Memorial Project better. After you read this story, TAKE A SHORT SURVEY and let us know your thoughts! Thanks!Operated by town Mayor Chick Nelson, the Tutwiler Funeral Home played an essential role in the…