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signed a proclamation to honor emmett till and his mother made me till-mobley with a national monument. ceremony came on what would ve been emits 82nd birthday, tributes will be built at three locations. one and chicago, where emmett was born, and laid to rest, another on the banks of the tallahatchie river in mississippi where his body was found after he was tortured and lynched in 1955. at just 14 years old for allegedly whistling at a white woman. the third outside the county courthouse where tales killers were acquitted by an all white jury. it was because of his mother s activism that emmitt did not die in vain. she brought her sons mutilated body back from mississippi to chicago and opened the casket to show the world how they beat
and i was heartened by what president biden did yesterday is he named the monuments after emmett and his mother because if it had not been for mamie till, mobley s coverage, we would never have known what would happen to emmett till. emmett till was unfortunately not the only black kid that was beaten and killed in the south and up time period. even since. it was her decision. she told me she came to the national action network in the late 90s and several times after. she told me in private, and in public, she would say they advised her well, you don t really want to open the casket because his head was beat out of recognition. he was maimed. and she said no. and she said no. d. and when she had that funeral at the church of guarding cries in chicago, she said open up the casket. and as president biden raised yesterday, it was the black press, the jet magazine.