Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
National Monument · Sumner, Mississippi
A national monument proclaimed in July 2023 across three sites, two of them in the Mississippi Delta. Graball Landing on the Tallahatchie is where the body of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was pulled from the river in August 1955; the Tallahatchie County courthouse at Sumner is where the two men who killed him were acquitted by an all-white jury in about an hour, and where they confessed to a magazine months later knowing they could not be tried again. The third site is the Chicago church where his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open casket so that the world would see what had been done.
100 Court Square, Sumner, Mississippi, 38957, United States
FREE, and largely open ground. Graball Landing is a roadside site accessible at any time. The Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse at Sumner is a working courthouse; the restored courtroom is shown through the Emmett Till Interpretive Center across the square, which keeps its own hours and is a separate organisation. THIS IS A VERY NEW NPS UNIT WITH MINIMAL INFRASTRUCTURE — check nps.gov and the Interpretive Center before travelling.
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