The new monument encompasses three poignant locations: Graball Landing near Glendora, Mississippi, where Till’s body was recovered; Chicago’s Roberts Temple Church of God, the site of Till’s high profile, open casket funeral; and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Mississippi, where Till’s murderers were acquitted.
The monument will tell the story of Till’s lynching and the heroic activism of his mother which helped to launch the Civil Rights Movement.
This is Clay Cane In an unanimous vote, the House passed a bill to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie
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