Powhatan Mound and Railroad Tracks,
The railroad tracks running across the Powhatan mound were first laid in 1855, across 22 acres of the Pamunkey reservation, without permission
Entries by Richard Binhammer
Seed Shed, Drew Mississippi
This barn is the location where Emmett Till was beaten and, most likely, murdered.
Mose Wright’s Home where Emmett Till was Kidnapped, Money, MS
Emmett Till was kidnapped from the location seen in the historic image. It no longer exists. The image Im sharing is about half a mile from the original location.
Easy Money Church of God in Christ, Money, MS
After Emmett Till’s body was found, local law enforcement was anxious to bury the body and, they hoped, the story. Within hours of the body’s retrieval, a grave was dug here
Oklahoma City Memorial
Domestic terrorism and militias have always been around….question is how much breath do they get and/or do we give them. What is: The Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial, perfectly manicured lawn, gently lit “chairs”- one for each of the 168 people, including 19 children, who were killed when domestic terrorists parked a truck bomb in the […]
Soulsville USA, Stax, Memphis, Tennessee
Stax Studios in Memphis, Soulsville USA
The Blues, WC Handy and an Abandoned Train Station
Tutwiler, Mississippi, where WC Handy uncovered the blues
Dr T.R.M Howard’s Home, Mound Bayou, Mississippi
What is: a vacant lot, where Dr. TRM Howard lived, Mound Bayou, Mississippi. What was: Mound Bayou is 42 miles away from Sumner, MS where the Emmett Till trial occurred. However, it is an essential place in civil rights history for numerous reasons, but among them was that Mound Bayou and Dr. Howard’s house in […]
Po Monkey Juke Joint, Mississippi
Po’ Monkey’s was founded by Willie Seaberry in 1963, and was one of the last rural juke joints in the Mississippi Delta, wedged between a cotton field and a gravel road just over a mile west of Merigold, Mississippi.
Hot Tin Roof, Sharecropping, Stovall Plantation, MS
Muddy Waters start was here, in a sharecroppers place at the edge of the Stovall Plantation