Dismay at Ruin of Emmett Till Site ; Civic Leaders Hope to Preserve Store

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MONEY, Miss. The fading, whitewashed brick walls of the old Bryant Grocery & Meat Market store are crawling with vines, and the roof caved in long ago.

But some civic leaders consider it a significant piece of Mississippi civil rights history, and they want to see it preserved before it is too late.

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Dismay at Ruin of Emmett Till Site ; Civic Leaders Hope to Preserve Store

The store in the Mississippi Delta is where black teenager Emmett Till is said to have whistled at white shopkeeper Carolyn Bryant in...

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