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| @ ] | LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE twin brother, Raymond Bryant (deceased); J.W. Milam (deceased); Leslie F. Milam (deceased); | Stanley Lamar “Bud” Milam (deceased); [ pa Milam (deceased); James Bryant (deceased); Edward Bryant (deceased)[ =i | prc The brothers were particularly close, operating businesses together, regularly playing cards and a drinking together. Various members of the family were engaged in the grocery business throughout the Mississippi Counties of Leflore, Tallahatchie and Sunflower, with stores physically located in | Swan Lake, Glendora, Minter City, Itta Bena, Ruleville and Money, Mississippi. During his | research into the Till matter in 1963, Hugh Steven Whitaker interviewed individuals who knew J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant. Whitaker stated “they were invariably referred to as ‘peckerwoods,’ ‘white | trash,’ and other terms of disapprobation.” * | | | | b6 | b7C a Roy Bryant, Circa 1955 _ | Circa 1933 . | <[____]e Ry Bryan (deceased): } | cS was born of ii | Mississippi and grew up in the pe C [father worked on various farms and the family lived inf | “? Hugh Steven Whitaker, “A Case Study in Southem Justice - The Emmett Till Case”, (Master’s Thesis, Florida State University, 1963), 144 23 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.