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To sit at a table on the ground floor not that far from where the white press was seated. that was considered a breakthrough. >> reporter: among the journalists covering the trial were "jet" reporter simeon booker and freelance photographer ernest withers. withers' photograph of mose wright on the witness stand defiantly pointing to his nephew's murderers captured a rare moment, a black man bearing witness to racial terror in a southern courtroom. >> the ernest withers photo of moses wright standing up at the trial of till's murderers was taken surreptitiously. i think that's the number one im...

Crow's nest, they were allowed to sit at a table on the ground floor not that far from where the white press was seated. that was considered a breakthrough. >> reporter: among the journalists covering the trial were "jet" reporter simeon booker and freelance photographer ernest withers. withs' photograph of mose wright on the witness stand defiantly pointing to his nephew's murderers captured a rare moment, a black man bearing witness to racial terror in a southern courtroom. >> the ernest withers photo of moses wright standing up at the trial of till's murderers was taken surreptitiously. i t...

>> we were about the same age, the same age as a matter of fact. it was horrifying. >> it was my 9/11. it was basically, you know, an act of terror. >> reporter: in 1955, mississippi was ground zero for racial terror in the american south when 14-year-old emmett till arrived from chicago to visit his great uncle, mose wright, in a town called money. he was a big city kid. he wasn't familiar with the dark heart and the social taboos of the jim crow south. >> black people and white people interacted only on a transactional basis, but they were largely two different worlds. you'll stick to your o...

To sit at a table on the ground floor not that far from where the white press was seated. that was considered a breakthrough. >> reporter: among the journalists covering the trial were "jet" reporter simeon booker and freelance photographer ernest withers. withers' photograph of mose wright on the witness stand defiantly pointing to his nephew's murderers captured a rare moment, a black man bearing witness to racial terror in a southern courtroom. >> the ernest withers photo of moses wright standing up at the trial of till's murderers was taken surreptitiously. i think that's the number one im...

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