![Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress](http://tile.loc.gov/image-services/iiif/service:pnp:highsm:42600:42674/full/pct:25/0/default.jpg)
Display inside the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center in an old cotton-gin building in tiny Glendora, Mississippi | Library of Congress
![Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till's murder Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till's murder](https://images.theconversation.com/files/271078/original/file-20190425-121224-14bzoh5.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=754&fit=clip)
Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till's murder
![Fan Used As Weight -- Leflore County Deputy Sheriff John Ed Cothran examines the huge cotton gin fan used to weight down the body of 15-year-old Emmet Louis Till in the Tallahatchie Fan Used As Weight -- Leflore County Deputy Sheriff John Ed Cothran examines the huge cotton gin fan used to weight down the body of 15-year-old Emmet Louis Till in the Tallahatchie](https://cdn.superstock.com/5513/Comp/5513-16144236.webp)
Fan Used As Weight -- Leflore County Deputy Sheriff John Ed Cothran examines the huge cotton gin fan used to weight down the body of 15-year-old Emmet Louis Till in the Tallahatchie
![ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 ** FILE ** In this Sept. 22, 1955 file photo, a cotton-gin fan is presented as evidence in the trial investigating the death of 14-year-old Emmett ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 ** FILE ** In this Sept. 22, 1955 file photo, a cotton-gin fan is presented as evidence in the trial investigating the death of 14-year-old Emmett](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2P9P2KN/advance-for-sunday-sept-7-file-in-this-sept-22-1955-file-photo-a-cotton-gin-fan-is-presented-as-evidence-in-the-trial-investigating-the-death-of-14-year-old-emmett-louis-till-in-sumner-miss-on-sept-22-1955-the-fan-had-been-tied-around-the-boys-neck-with-barbed-wire-when-his-body-was-found-in-the-tallahatchie-river-near-the-delta-community-of-money-mississippi-on-august-31-1955-the-case-is-one-of-nearly-one-hundred-unsolved-racial-killings-that-has-been-prosecuted-under-the-fbis-cold-case-initiative-hopes-were-raised-say-family-members-of-the-victims-but-justice-ha-2P9P2KN.jpg)