President Biden will announce on Tuesday the establishment of a national monument dedicated to Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder helped spark the civil rights movement, according to a White House official.
, played in shaping American history, Marvel Parker, who co-founded the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Institute, said in an interview.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include sites in Mississippi and Chicago, the White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity ahead of the monument’s public announcement.The locations slated for the monument are: the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Till’s funeral was held and his mother decided to allow the undertakers to show his body; the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, Miss.
On Aug. 24, 1955, Emmett and his cousins decided to buy candy and snacks at Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Miss, where people often gathered to play checkers on the porch outside. A few nights later, Carolyn Bryant’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half brother, J.W. Milam, drove to the home of Emmett’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, and demanded that Emmett come out.
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