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English: Sign at location of killing of Clinton Mellon, violent act related to Emmett Till's murder. The sign reads:

Clinton
Melton
The September 1955 acquittal of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant for the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till fueled further racial violence. Clinton Melton was an outspoken black man who was gunned down here 2-1/2 months later by Milam's friend Elmer Kimball, allegedly over a dispute about filling up a gas tank.
On the day before Kimball's trial in Sumner, Melton's widow, Beulah, was apparently forced off the road near Glendora and drowned in Black Bayou, leaving five children orphaned.
Kimball was acquitted of Clinton Melton's murder.

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Author Deisenbe
Camera location33° 49′ 53.28″ N, 90° 17′ 50.56″ W  Heading=320.82751433038° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Sign at location of killing of Clinton Mellon, violent act related to Emmett Till's murder

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Glendora

Emmett Till

murder

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11 August 2019

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33°49'53.281"N, 90°17'50.561"W

heading: 320.8275143303804 degree

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0.00030303030303030303 second

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