🧵 A thread of photos of the Senatobia High School in Senatobia Mississippi, built in 1938 under the Works Progress Administration. This might be one of the coolest small town schools I've seen. 🧵1/4
An incredible thing I did not expect to find in this 1930s WPA interview series with former slaves is a firsthand description of the the 1833 Leonid meteor storm https://t.co/AcOkaXVeB1
New work for @washingtonpost about Myrlie Evers-Williams on the 60th anniversary of the murder of Civil Rights icon Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi. One of the most meaningful/emotional interviews I've photographed. Powerful article by @DeNeenLBrown: https://t.co/1SN8hpqN11
On August 31, 1955, Woodrow Jackson prepared Emmett Till’s body here at the Tutwiler Funeral Home, to return to Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in Chicago.
Tutwiler Funeral Home
Tutwiler, MS