History, Culture, and Justice Among the Stops on a Miss. Donor Trip

History, Culture, and Justice Are Among the Stops on a Donor Trip 1

Edward Bergmark

Participants on a charity’s bus tour view the site of a former store in Money, Miss., where Emmett Till, a black teenager, ran afoul of whites.

By Nicole Wallace

Greenwood, Miss.

Candlelight flickers in the churchyard as Sylvester Hoover stands by what might be Robert Johnson’s grave—three cemeteries claim to be his final resting place—and tells the story of the legendary bluesman’s life and mysterious death.

But the storyteller also talks about his own childhood in the waning days of the sharecropping system, which for decades kept many Southern blacks indebted to the owners of the cotton plantations whose land they