Biden establishes Emmitt Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument

Biden establishes Emmitt Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument

Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr., a member of the Till family, introduces President Joe Biden at a signing ceremony for creation of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument on what would have been Emmett Till’s 82 birthday. The monument encompasses the location where Till’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955, and the courthouse in which the perpetrators were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury in Mississippi, and Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Illinois, where his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley had an open-casket funeral for her son. The sight of Till’s beaten and bloated body played a major role in galvanizing the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)

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