Rob Merrill, Author at Mississippi Free Press

The brown cover for the book The Barn: The Secret History of A Murder in Mississippi. By Wright Thompson.

Book Review: Wright Thompson Exposes The Deep Racist Roots of The Mississippi Delta In ‘The Barn’

by Rob Merrill and Associated Press October 8, 2024June 25, 2025

Wright Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi to examine the place where Emmett Till was murdered for “The Barn.” Thompson builds “on the reporting of others to tell Till’s story” and uses “the barn as a jumping off point to explore the racist history of the Mississippi Delta.”