The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi," revisits what is often considered the most galvanizing event of the civil-rights era: the 1955 murder and mutilation of 14-year-old Emmett Till in rural ...

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 ...

The third site is the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett Till's murderers were tried by an all-white jury and acquitted. The new monument would ...