Close
KTAR.com
News
Shows
Blogs
KTAR News on 92.3FM

Emmett Till marker in Mississippi toppled but not vandalized

All that remains of what was Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Miss., July 14, 2021, are the vine covered brick walls. Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American teen, was beaten and killed in 1955, after he was accused of whistling at a white woman, at the family's store. For more than a century, one of Mississippi’s largest and most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at the courthouse in the center of Greenwood. It's a Black-majority city with a rich civil rights history. Officials voted last year to remove the statue, but little progress has been made to that end. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) A Mississippi Freedom Trail marker sits before the remains of Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Miss., July 14, 2021, where in 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American teen, was accused of whistling at a white woman, at the family's store. Till was later kidnapped, beaten and killed. For more than a century, one of Mississippi’s largest and most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at the courthouse in the center of Greenwood. It's a Black-majority city with a rich civil rights history. Officials voted last year to remove the statue, but little progress has been made to that end. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)