Tallahatchie County Courthouse

Located in Sumner, Mississippi, the Tallatatchie County Courthouse is the site of the historic trial of J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till on September 19, 1955. Milam and Bryant were both acquitted by an all-white jury but confessed to Till’s murder in a Look magazine interview the following year. The trial was called “the first great media event of the civil rights movement” by the journalist and historian David Halberstam.

While the building is still in use today as a county courthouse, its courtroom serves as a living memorial to Emmett Till. The courtroom was restored to its 1955 appearance and is open for tours booked through the Emmett Till Interpretive Center.