Sep. 22, 2024
‘Hiding in plain sight’: New book investigates Emmett Till’s horrific lynching
In the decades after the brutal lynching of Emmett Till, the emphasis has usually been placed on the derelict grocery store where he allegedly wolf-whistled at a white woman. A new book shifts our gaze to a more important location: the barn where young Emmett was murdered by J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant. Wright Thompson joins MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to discuss his new book “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.”…