In 1955, Emmett Till, a young Black boy from Chicago, traveled to Mississippi to visit relatives. There, he was kidnapped and murdered in one of the most horrific crimes in American history. The trial that followed captivated the world and became a catalyst for the modern Civil Rights Movement. Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till allows modern-day audiences the opportunity to witness, for the first time, what happened in that Mississippi courtroom in 1955. Every word of testimony presented in Trial in the Delta was taken directly from the original court transcripts, allowing viewers a front row seat to the trial to hear these voices from our past and bear witness to this American tragedy as it unfolded.

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