Money, Mississippi

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Money is a community in Leflore County, Mississippi, near Greenwood. It has a population of less than 100, down from around 400 in the 1950s when a cotton mill still operated in the community. It is on a railroad line and lies on the Tallahatchie River.

Money became infamous in the U.S. civil rights movement after Emmett Till, a 14 year old native of Chicago, Illinois was lynched there in 1955 while visiting family for the summer. Two white men were acquitted by an all-white jury but confessed to the killings in a magazine interview 2 years later. Till's mother insisted on a open casket funeral and allowed news photographs of the body to be published, raising Northern awareness of lynching.