1955

1955 was not just a year in Mississippi. It was a turning point. In the Delta towns of Belzoni, Money, Mound Bayou, and Brookhaven, the old rules still ruled with violence, fear, and silence. But across the state, something was beginning to shift. Teachers, veterans, ministers, farmers, and ordinary citizens began refusing to accept the world as it had always been. In the summer of 1955, the brutal murder of a fourteen-year-old boy would shock the nation. The trial that followed would expos...