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.
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.
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.
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