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Tallahatchie County Courthouse

Sumner, MS

The courthouse where the 1955 murder trial following Emmett Till's killing took place. It remains a functioning civic building as well as a major civil-rights historic site, so interior access depends on courthouse schedules and current visitor arrangements.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/tallahatchie-county-courthouse.htm

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