Three monuments erected in Chicago and Mississippi to honor the teen who was murdered in 1955
President Joe Biden signs a proclamation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House campus, Tuesday, July 25, 2023, in Washington. He’s the 14-year-old who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955. His killers were eventually acquitted by an all-white jury. That injustice was one of the primary catalysts for the Civils Rights movement.
A Mississippi Department of Archives and History historical marker outlines the details of the Emmett Till murder trial at the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse, Monday, July 24, 2023, in Sumner, Miss. President Joe Biden is expected to sign a proclamation on Tuesday that establishes a national monument honoring Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement.
“To the Till family it’s an honor to be with you, you know when I was preparing these remarks, I quite frankly and my colleagues will understand this. I found myself trying to temper my anger. As I was writing. I’m not joking. I can’t fathom what it must’ve been like,” said President Biden in a ceremony at the White House. “I was 12-years-old. No matter how much time has passed how many birthdays, events anniversaries. It’s hard to relive this. it brings it all back as it happened yesterday.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - MARCH 22: Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, where the 1955 funeral for Emmett Till was held, is considered an endangered historic place and is currently being considered for designation as a National Monument on March 22, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.
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