A Sumner man pled guilty to one count of trafficking stolen firearms in Madison County. Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett said Kyler ...

9/20/1955. Library of Congress When the murder trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam opened in Sumner, Mississippi, on a steamy September morning in 1955, few realized the town would ...

Officers searched the vehicle and found three firearms that had all been stolen from various auto burglaries in the previous two weeks.

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 ...