Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market, Money, Mississippi

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Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi, is the small country store where Carolyn Bryant’s accusation against Emmett Till in 1955 helped trigger his lynching and galvanize the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf commercial building
grocery store
historic site
associatedMovement Civil Rights Movement
associatedWith Carolyn Bryant
Emmett Till
J. W. Milam
Roy Bryant
buildingType wood-frame country store
context segregated American South
contributedTo Emmett Till lynching case
galvanizing the modern Civil Rights Movement
country United States
county Leflore County
customerBase predominantly African American customers
era Jim Crow era
linked to: Jim Crow laws
eventDate August 24, 1955
hasHeritageDesignation recognized as a key site in Emmett Till Memory Project
historicalRole site of alleged incident leading to Emmett Till’s abduction and murder
knownForEvent 1955 encounter between Emmett Till and Carolyn Bryant
listedIn various civil rights travel guides
locatedIn Leflore County, Mississippi
linked to: Leflore County

Mississippi
Money, Mississippi
United States
memorializedAs civil rights history site
namedAfter the Bryant family
near Tallahatchie River region
railroad tracks in Money, Mississippi
notableFor Carolyn Bryant’s accusation against Emmett Till
spark for national outrage over racial violence
openedForBusiness early 1950s
operatedBy Carolyn Bryant
Roy Bryant
ownedBy Carolyn Bryant
Roy Bryant
partOf Emmett Till murder narrative
recognizedFor role in American civil rights history
serves local Black sharecroppers
rural customers
state Mississippi
status largely dilapidated structure in the 21st century
subjectOf civil rights scholarship
documentaries about Emmett Till
historical markers
timePeriod mid-20th century

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Carolyn Bryant placeOfEvent Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market, Money, Mississippi