Report: Biden set to share plans for Emmett Till monument
and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument which will be spread across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi.
The various sites will highlight Till’s life, the acquittal of his White killers and his mother’s activism. The Illinois site is located at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Bronzeville. The two sites in Mississippi include Graball Landing, which is where ’s body was believed to be retrieved from the Tallahatchie River, and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where the teen’s killers were acquitted on murder charges.
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