Posted on 07/24/2023 11:33:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, as well as his mother, a White House official said.
Till's lynching and the activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the civil rights movement.
Mr Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday which is Till's birthday, 25 July.
It comes a year after he signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include three separate sites in two states - Illinois and Mississippi.
One site is the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, a historically black neighbourhood on Chicago's South Side where thousands of people gathered to mourn and bear witness to Emmett Till's death in September 1955.
In Mississippi, the monument will include Graball Landing, which is believed to be the site where Emmett Till's brutalised body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River. The third site is the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Emmett Till's murderers were tried by an all-white jury and acquitted.
The new monument would "protect places that tell the story of Emmett Till's too-short life and racially-motivated murder, the unjust acquittal of his murderers, and the activism of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley", the White House said in a statement.
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was brutally beaten and killed after a white woman claimed he harassed her at a store.
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Of course Biden would put up a statue for a sex offender
Where's the monument to Whites killed by black teens?
Till was a sex offender?
He is my least favorite figure of the civil rights movement. They’ve been worshiping this boy for longer than I’ve been alive. And yet, blacks kill black kids ever damn day. And they don’t care about that. The bodies are piled high — but I’m supposed to care about this Till kid? Not gonna happen.
Till’s father was executed for rape in Italy too.
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Akron Ohio needs one for Ethan Liming. (I won’t forget)
He assaulted the white woman, she never recanted. I don’t think he should have been killed but he deserved a beating.
The issue is never the issue...
Wounds never heal if you keep picking at them. I know, I know, that’s the point.
Till’s mother was lynched as well?
She lied.
This is just race baiting to keep em on the Democrat Plantation.
Post under Braking Noose
I want off of this bus.
Anything is possible
Kissing Black Ass is an existential necessity for the Democrats
converting nothingness into somethingness is Kissing
Black Ass
Im not aware of him touching the woman. If he had touched her, a good talking to would have sufficed.
The women who lied about that should have been jailed for life.
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