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How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson

How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson

Update: 2024-10-031
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You have heard about the grocery store. And the photographs cannot be unseen. But the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old in Mississippi — a killing that sparked the Civil Rights Movement, that forever shaped America — has been criminally underreported. Until Wright Thompson, son of the Delta and sportswriter of the century, embarked upon a story about LeBron's Lakers... that became a mapping of intentionally constructed, deeply hard-wired silence, in his new instant bestseller and surrealistic people's history, The Barn.


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How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson

How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends