Till's abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement.
When President Joe Biden signs a proclamation on Tuesday establishing a national monument, it will mark the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives made after his death 68 years ago.
They hope to raise money to restore the sites and develop educational programming to support their inclusion in the National Park System. In this undated photo 14-year-old Emmett L.Till from Chicago, is shown. Till, whose battered body, a bullet in his head, and a weight around his neck was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955.
Biden’s proclamation protects places that are central to the story of Emmett Till’s life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers by an all-white jury and his late mother’s activism. At the trial of his killers in Mississippi, Till-Mobley bravely took the witness stand to counter the perverse image of her son that defense attorneys had painted for jurors and trial watchers.
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