The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred" memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced.

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The new owner of the Mississippi barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed is to be opened as a memorial site by 2030

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center announced it purchased the rural barn late Sunday with the help of a $1.5 million donation from television producer Shonda Rhimes

Till was abducted and killed in August 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman

Two white men publicly confessed to the killing after they had been acquitted by an all-white jury in Mississippi.

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center disclosed late Sunday that it had purchased the barn locat

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