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'Hiding in plain sight': New book investigates Emmett Till's horrific lynching
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September 23, 2024
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4:49Now PlayingIn 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."
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