How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson
You have heard about the grocery store. And the photographs cannot be unseen. But the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old in Mississippi \u2014 a killing that sparked the Civil Rights Movement, that forever shaped America \u2014 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.\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices