Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market

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grocery store historic site

Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market was the rural Mississippi store where the 1955 encounter between Emmett Till and Carolyn Bryant occurred, an event that helped spark the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market	1

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	grocery store ⓘ historic site ⓘ
associatedWith	Carolyn Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ Emmett Till NERFINISHED ⓘ J. W. Milam NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ
coOwnedBy	Carolyn Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
county	Leflore County NERFINISHED ⓘ
customerBase	primarily African American customers ⓘ
era	mid-20th century ⓘ
eventDate	1955 ⓘ
eventMonth	August 1955 ⓘ
eventOccurred	Emmett Till–Carolyn Bryant encounter NERFINISHED ⓘ
function	grocery store ⓘ meat market ⓘ
heritageDesignation	recognized as a significant civil rights–era site (informal/historiographical) ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Jim Crow era NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	association with the 1955 Emmett Till case ⓘ role in the origins of the modern Civil Rights Movement ⓘ site of Emmett Till–Carolyn Bryant encounter ⓘ
locatedIn	Leflore County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ Money, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
near	Tallahatchie River region NERFINISHED ⓘ
ownedBy	Roy Bryant NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Emmett Till murder case history ⓘ
racialContext	racially segregated South ⓘ
referencedIn	Emmett Till memorial narratives ⓘ civil rights historiography ⓘ
servedCommunity	local Black sharecroppers ⓘ rural residents of Money, Mississippi ⓘ
significance	catalyst for national attention to racial violence in the U.S. South ⓘ symbol of racial injustice in the United States ⓘ
state	Mississippi ⓘ
status	no longer operating as a store ⓘ
topicOf	books on the Civil Rights Movement ⓘ documentaries about Emmett Till ⓘ historical articles on racial violence in Mississippi ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Money, Mississippi, United States → associatedWith → Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market ⓘ

subject surface form: Money, Mississippi

Roy Bryant → employer → Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market ⓘ

Carolyn Bryant → associatedWith → Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market