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Debbie Elliott

Landmarks fall, memories fade. Civil rights tourism may protect Mississippi history

Johnny Thomas, mayor of tiny Glendora, Miss., runs a small civil rights museum dedicated to the Emmett Till story. (Kirk Siegler/NPR)

GLENDORA, Miss — On a remote country highway running along the railroad tracks in Money, Miss., a historical marker stands on a corner where nature has overrun a building.

It's what's left of Bryant's Grocery, the store where Emmett Till, a 14-year old Black teenager visiting from Chicago, allegedly flirted with the white female shopkeeper in 1955, a violation of the Jim Crow segregation code.

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