Julius Williams, most often referred to as dead body in a field was decided to have died from unknown causes by this jury. Included is the cost sheet for the inquest along with the making of a coffin and digging a grave. Handwritten documents date between 1892-3; measure 7.75 x 12” and the second two pages pasted vertically. ___...
Julius Williams, most often referred to as dead body in a field was decided to have died from unknown causes by this jury. Included is the cost sheet for the inquest along with the making of a coffin and digging a grave.
Handwritten documents date between 1892-3; measure 7.75 x 12” and the second two pages pasted vertically.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Leflore County in the Mississippi Delta was estimated over 90% African American. The town became an unfortunate nexus point for Reconstruction’s failings and Jim Crow rule. Historically having one of the highest rates of child poverty and lynchings in the country, the area is most famous for Emmett Till’s murder in 1955.