In his new book, author Wright Thompson examines the site of the notorious 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and a Mississippi Delta culture that, he says, has spent decades trying to erase a horrible crime.
“The Barn,” on the lynching of Emmett Till, and an evil hiding in plain sight
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