A Memorial at the Barn
After an Atlantic story about the lynching of Emmett Till, the barn where he was murdered will be converted into a memorial.
From the graveled bend on Drew Ruleville Road, the barn is barely visible. A knot of trees obscures its weathered cypress panels; a driver could easily miss the structure from across the bayou. There is no indication that this is the place where Emmett Till was beaten and tortured.
That is about to change. In the September 2021 issue of , Wright Thompson and what its erasure says about how Mississippi remembers the lynching of Emmett, which will buy the barn and convert it into a permanent memorial.
