Biden To Designate National Monuments In Honor Of Emmett Till
President Joe Biden signed a proclamation that designated national monuments in honor of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Till and Mobley were influential in the civil rights movement. In August 1955, two white men tortured and killed 14-year-old Till, a black child, after he whistled at a white shopkeeper’s wife in a Mississippi grocery store. The men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were acquitted but later confessed to the crime. Fifty years later, the shopkeeper’s wife, Carolyn Bryant Donham, also admitted to lying about Till touching her. Till’s funeral was held at Roberts Temple ...