The statue honored MLK and the fourteen-year-old Black boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureEmmett Till, a Black teenager who was killed
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will span three sites in Illinois, where Emmett was born 82 years ago today, and in Mississippi, where he was killed. But the original monument to Till was erected in Colorado almost fifty years ago.Denver bowling alley owner Herman Hamilton Hamilton worked with budding sculptor Ed Rose on a proposal to create the statue made of sheet metal and bronze,"King and Companion," which was erected in City Park in 1976 as a U.S. Bicentennial project. But from the start, the piece was the focus of controversy — critics fretted that King's head was too big, funders refused to pay for the statue, and Rose had to sue to be compensated for his work.
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