Tallahatchie Civil Rights Driving Tour

This is the virtual version of the physical tour first created by the Emmett Till Memorial Commission in 2008. It includes the Delta Inn. The Delta Inn was on the original tour, but the sign was stolen and never replaced.

Built in 1920, the Delta Inn was a mansion that was the center of midcentury Sumner society and, during the trial, the site at which the jury was sequestered. With the help of renowned photographer Maude Schuyler Clay, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission crafted noncontroversial prose about the…
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