In October 1955, Alabama author William Bradford Huie traveled to Mississippi to secure confessions from the two men who murdered Emmett Till. In one of the earliest examples of “checkbook journalism,” the Hartselle native paid Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for their story, believing he could extract the true inside account about why and how they killed the young boy from Chicago.
This is a Road Scholar talk by Christopher Metress, Ph.D.
January 6, 2026 | 2pm
Sheffield Public Library (Sheffield)
256-386-5633
bridgewa_msh@lmn.lib.al.us
