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.
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The unveiling of the statue coincides with the release this month of "Till," a movie focusing on Till-Mobley's private trauma over her son's death and her development into a civil rights activist.
A 9-foot statue of Emmett Till, the Black teen kidnapped and killed for whistling at a white woman in 1955, will be unveiled on Friday in a Mississippi park located just a short drive away from an elaborate monument to the confederacy.