PTFO - How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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You have heard about the grocery store. And the photographs cannot be unseen. But the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old in Mississippi — a killing that sparked the Civil Rights Movement, that forever shaped America — has been criminally underreported. Until Wright Thompson, son of the Delta and sportswriter of the century, embarked upon a story about LeBron's Lakers... that became a mapping of intentionally constructed, deeply hard-wired silence, in his new instant bestseller and surrealistic people's history, The Barn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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