New owner to open Mississippi barn where Emmett Till was killed as a memorial site

The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred” memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced.

- by Sophie Bates Associated Press

A photograph of the Emmett and Mamie Till-Mobley House Museum in Chicago, IL, USA. The Emmett Till Interpretive Center announced that it has purchased a barn near Drew, Mississippi, aided by a $1.5 million donation from television producer Shonda Rhimes. ETIC Executive Director Patrick Weems said, "Where the worst harms have occurred, the most healing is possible." The barn will be opened as a memorial ahead of the 75th anniversary of Till's lynching in 1955.

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The Emmett Till Interpretive Center disclosed late Sunday that it had purchased the barn located in a rural area outside the city of Drew, aided by a $1.5 million donation from television producer and writer Shonda Rhimes.

“We think that where the worst harms have happened, the most healing is possible,” ETIC Executive Director Patrick Weems said.