Graball Landing, at the intersection of the Black Bayou and the Tallahatchie River, is believed to be where Till's body was found; a memorial sign marking the spot was installed in 2008 but was ...

The two sites in Mississippi include Graball Landing, where Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse, which was previously ...

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.

A memorial first installed in 2008 to mark the spot where 14-year-old Emmett Till was recovered from the Tallahatchie River in 1955 has been repeatedly vandalized — shot through with bullet holes.

Emmett Till’s black, broken body was plucked from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi days after his killing in Aug. 1955, a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire. It took 19 ...

The new sign marking the spot in Tallahatchie County, Miss., where Emmett Till's body was pulled from a river in 1955. This is the fourth sign erected on the site; others have been repeatedly ...

Herman Johnson, Jr., director of the Mound Bayou Museum in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. He points to a 1955 photo display in the museum of Mamie Till, Cong. Charles Diggs, Dr. T.R.M. Howard and others.

If you drive along Mississippi’s Tallahatchie river, you might encounter a purple sign at Graball Landing. The marker was erected in 2013 to commemorate the spot where 15-year-old Emmett Till ...

During a visit to see his great uncle in Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, of Chicago, was brutally lynched on Aug. 28,1955. When his mutilated body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River, his ...

The 2023 Tallahatchie RiverFest will almost entirely take place in the historic downtown area this Saturday, Sept. 23.

All of which made the Dad Rock guys take note when they learned that on this day, June 20, in 1972, the famous wooden bridge (which crossed the Tallahatchie River not far from Greenwood ...