{"id":51517,"date":"2015-09-09T15:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/emmett_tills_death_and_history_is_fading_in_the_mississippi_town_where_he_d\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:29:43","slug":"emmett_tills_death_and_history_is_fading_in_the_mississippi_town_where_he_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51517","title":{"rendered":"Emmett Till\u2019s death, and history, is fading in the Mississippi town where he died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Bryant\u2019s Grocery is derelict and forgotten, much like the town of Money. Although Till\u2019s lynching is considered a pivotal spark of the civil rights movement, there\u2019s little here to recall those events other than a modest historic marker erected outside Bryant\u2019s four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Some say the grocery store should be turned into a museum, like many other places critical to the civil rights movement, or at least prevented from falling down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should have preserved all of it,\u201d\u009d said Eddie Carthan, a distant relative of Till\u2019s mother and the former mayor of Tchula, which in the 1970s became one of the first Delta plantation towns to elect a black mayor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/emmett-tills-death-and-history-is-fading-in-this-mississippi-town\/2015\/09\/07\/e04444c6-500c-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Bryant\u2019s Grocery is derelict and forgotten, much like the town of Money. Although Till\u2019s lynching is considered a pivotal spark of the civil rights movement, there\u2019s little here to recall those events other than a modest historic marker erected<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51517\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,168,133,120,107,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-ruraltown-life","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}