Till's lynching by a mob of white men, along with the activism of his late mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, was a spark that set off the civil rights movement.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be located across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi and will be federally protected places.
/PRNewswire/ Thanks to the collaborative efforts of the National Park Foundation (NPF), the National Park Service (NPS), and the Emmett Till Interpretive.
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