When Emmett Till was murdered, the head of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins, lambasted Mississippi and called Emmett's murder a lynching. "It would appear from this lynching that the State of Mississippi ...

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If you know where to look in the Mississippi Delta, you can find markers of what a culture has spent decades trying to erase. This plaque at the Tallahatchie River – replaced every now and then ...

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (artist rendering), which commemorates 4,400 lynching victims ... was accused by neighbors in Doddsville, Mississippi, of killing a white farmer.