In an unanimous vote, the House passed a bill to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the Associated Press reports.

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In an unanimous vote, the House passed a bill to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the Associated Press reports.  The National Museum of African American History will receive the medal and display it near Till’s casket.

In 1955, Emmett, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi. The then-Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, accused Emmett of whistling and making sexual advances toward her. An all white jury acquitted the men of murder charges, but they later confessed in Look magazine.. Till-Mobley, who died in 2003, insisted on an open casket so the world could see her son’s brutalized body. The photos would help to spark the civil rights movement.

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