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When President Joe Biden signed a proclamation Tuesday establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, it marked the fulfillment of a promise Till’s relatives .
President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel
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.
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.