CHICAGO (WGN) – The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the state of Mississippi, is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing nearly 4,415,000 acres, the equivalent of approximately 7,000 square miles.
It’s a vast stretch of land consisting of farms, rivers, dirt roads and railroad tracks, but if you know where to look, you’ll find markers of an event that a culture has spent now 70 years trying to erase.
On Aug. 28, 1955, a 14-year-old boy from the South Side of Chicago named Emmett Till was driven to a barn in Drew, Mississippi, where he was beaten, tortured, mutilated and later shot in the head and killed…