At this site in 1955, black reporter James Hicks uncovered information relevant to the trial for the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. Here a young woman gave Hicks the real name of Leroy “Too Tight” Collins, as well as Henry Lee Loggins, alleged witnesses in the Till trial who had been jailed in the Charleston jail under false names and charges. Hicks was the only reporter to enter the black community to investigate evidence in the Till case. Adjacent to this site stood the store of J.W. Milam, one of Till’s murderers.