A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till has been dedicated in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. The brutal 1955 slaying of the 14-year-old black teenager helped spur the civil rights movement.
A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized.
The 14-year-old African American teen was kidnapped, beaten and killed in 1955, hours after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His body was found in a river days later. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted two white men of murder charges. Members of Till's family, including a cousin who was there the night Till was kidnapped, attended the ceremony at the site where the teen's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River.The first historical marker was placed in 2008. Someone tossed it in the river. The second and third signs were shot at and left riddled with bullet holes.Weems said the markers were placed as an attempt to acknowledge the truth of what happened there and hopefully spark"new conversations.
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