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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 ...
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President Joe Biden has signed an anti-lynching bill into law named afterEmmett Till, a 14-year-old black male who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act makes lynching a federal hate crime in all states. During the ceremony, Biden said that “racial hate isn’t an old problem but it’s a persistent problem. “Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone belongs in America and not everyone is created equal,” Biden said. Under the legislation, perpetrators can be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. Before this legislation was passed, there were mor...
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