A Mississippi town with a Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager.
A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for allegedly whistling at a white woman in a country store. The 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after Till’s mother, Mamie…
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Just miles away from an elaborate Confederate monument, a Mississippi community has built a larger-than-life statue in honor of Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was abducted and killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman in a store.