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Simeon Wright shared his terrifying experience on his own autobiography book 'An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.'

Emmett Till's memorial signs were vandalized several times. In 2007, 52 years after his death, the first sign went up along the river where his body was found. It was stolen in 2008 and never found. Eight years later, the replacement sign was riddled with bullets. That sign now sits in the interpretive center's museum. A third sign was put up near the River and only 35 days later it was shot up again.

Carolyn Bryant died in April 2023, aged 88. Her family had kept details of her life and whereabouts private.

The trial of Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam took place in the Sumner Courthouse in 1955. The producers of 'Women of the Movement' filmed the trial scenes at the renamed Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner. In recent years, the restoration of the second-floor courtroom made it look very similar to the original 1955 courtroom.

On Valentine's Day 1958, J.W. Milam was seen standing in a bread line waiting to receive rations from the Welfare Department, per The New York Post. While this couldn't be confirmed by the Washington County welfare department, J.W. denied it. He and his wife Juanita briefly moved to Orange, Texas, but returned to Mississippi a few years later. J.W. had several run-ins with the law there before he died of an unspecified cancer in 1980.