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"The Barn," on the lynching of Emmett Till, and an evil hiding in plain sight
An 18-year-old sharecropper named Willie Reed was out walking by the barn ... "In Mississippi, they're not gonna learn about what happened to Emmett Till," Dickerson said. "It's like the past ...
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Wright Thompson’s ‘The Barn’ reckons anew with the infamous murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till
The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi," revisits what is often considered the most galvanizing event of the ...
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The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in ... Moses Wright and another poor black Mississippian who testified, Willie Reed, leave Mississippi and are smuggled to Chicago. Once there, Reed collapses ...
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Mamie Till Mobley
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/emmett-biography-mamie-till-mobley/ From left: Walter Reed, Willie Reed, Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett ...