Day 17: Transcendence for challenge.micro.blog.

This is the spot where the mutilated body of a young black boy, Emmett Till—whose crime was being black in rural Mississippi during Jim Crow—was dumped, an event that transcended a “simple” race murder and helped to launch the Civil Rights Movement.

A dilapidated rusted bridge over a flooded bayou, with trees flooded along the banks and muddy water in the channel.