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"What does it say about us, right, that if you pick up a grammar school textbook history, a high school textbook history, and look for Emmett Till, you might not find him in the index?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of author Wright Thompson who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” that revisits the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, revealing the true location and nature of the crime, which took place in a barn rather than the location indicated by a false confession. Thompson, a Mississippi native, explores the historical context of the event, the forces of white supremacy that enabled it, and the efforts of individuals to uncover the truth after decades of obfuscation, which he writes "painted a poor picture of Mississippi and its white citizens."
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"What does it say about us, right, that if you pick up a grammar school textbook history, a high school textbook history, and look for Emmett Till, you might not find him in the index?” asks veteran columnist Mike Barnicle of author Wright Thompson who joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” that revisits the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, revealing the true location and nature of the crime, which took place in a barn rather than the location indicated by a false confession. Thompson, a Mississippi native, explores the historical context of the event, the forces of white supremacy that enabled it, and the efforts of individuals to uncover the truth after decades of obfuscation, which he writes "painted a poor picture of Mississippi and its white citizens."
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