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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 26, 2023

President Joe Biden signed a proclamation yesterday to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, the Associated Press reports. The monument will cover three sites in two states. The first of the sites will be at the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Till’s open-casket funeral took place. The other two will be in Mississippi: one at Graball Landing, where Till’s body was believed to be pulled from the Tallahatchie River, and one at the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse, where Till’s killers were acquitted. Till, who would have turned 82 yesterday, was killed in 1955 after a 21-year-old woman accused him of whistling at her. The killing, and the acquittal of the killers, helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement.