How Emmett Till Got Erased from the History Books, with Wright Thompson
About this episode
You have heard about the grocery store. And the photographs cannot be unseen. But the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old in Mississippi — a killing that sparked the Civil Rights Movement, that forever shaped America — has been criminally underreported. Until Wright Thompson, son of the Delta and sportswriter of the century, embarked upon a story about LeBron's Lakers... that became a mapping of intentionally constructed, deeply hard-wired silence, in his new instant bestseller and surrealistic people's history, The Barn.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Get every episode summarized
Each time Pablo Torre Finds Out publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: Private Equity, Salary Caps and Whether Players Should Want...
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Inside the Billionaire Shadow League Funding American Tennis
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Washing Up the Clippers' Punishment, with Henry Abbott
Pablo Torre Finds Out
We Investigated Magic Johnson, Mark Walter... and Your Nest Egg
Pablo Torre Finds Out