Biden to establish national monument honoring Black teen lynched in Mississippi

Biden to establish national monument honoring Black teen lynched in Mississippi

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President Joe Biden is going to establish a national monument to honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager killed in 1955

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Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman and her mother in Mississippi

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Following this, Emmett Till was abducted and brutally tortured before getting killed

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His mutilated body was found in Tallahatchie River, where he was shot 

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Biden plans to create the monuments in three sites in Illinois and Mississippi. 

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Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. It is a place where thousands of people gathered to mourn Emmett Till after his death.

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Graball Landing and Tallahatchie County are sites in Mississippi where Till’s killer was tried and acquitted by an all-white jury

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An official statement from the White House in this regard is expected to be out very soon.

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