President Biden on Tuesday signed a proclamation creating a national monument in honor of Mamie Till Mobley and her son Emmett Till, the 14-year-old whose brutal killing in Mississippi helped galvanize the civil rights movement. The monument, spread over three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, will tell the story of Till’s murder in 1955, and…
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Imagine being a mother forced to identify your 14-year-old child using the ring he wore because his body was mutilated beyond recognition. Imagine that his murderers beat him bloody, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and tied a 75-pound cotton gin fan to his neck before throwing him in Tallahatchie River.