"The Barn: Mississippi Silence"
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•Book excerpt: "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" by Wright Thompson
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Wright Thompson's bestseller, " The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi ," explores the culture of silence that enveloped the Mississippi Delta over the 1955 murder of Emmett Till .
Read an excerpt below, and don't miss Jim Axelrod's interview with Wright Thompson on December 1 !.
EazyE 's grandparents ran a grocery store sixteen blocks up Broadway in Greenville from the house where J.W. Milam lived when he died.
The blues came from the land around Dockery Farms , the birthplace of the Delta blues.
The family still owns their plantation and has set up Dockery as a living museum.
Willie Reed walked six miles in the dark, skirting the edge of Dockery Farms .
He only had two other options to escape: DrewMerigold Road , DrewRuleville Road .
Reed likely passed his girlfriend Ella Mae Stubbs's home, but didn't have time to tell her goodbye.
Medgar Evers drove Reed north in Evers 's Oldsmobile 88 with a bigblock V8 to Memphis Airport .
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