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Milam's House was the home of J.W. Milam, who along with his half-brother Roy Bryant murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955. The two men confessed to journalist William Bradford Huie, and Milam claimed that he and his brother initially beat Till in the barn behind the house. Milam forced several of his black employees to wash out the bloody truck that had been used to carry Till’s body to the Tallahatchie River. He also later admitted to burning Till’s clothes in the backyard.
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Glendora, Mississippi · United States