The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will span across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi,
The key sites in Till's life and death will be marked with monuments in Mississippi and Illinois.
Biden's decision also comes at a fraught time in the United States over matters concerning race. Conservative leaders are pushing back against the teaching of slavery and Black history in public schools, as well as the incorporation of diversity, equity and inclusion programs from college classrooms to corporate boardrooms.
DeSantis said he had no role in devising his state's new education standards but defended the components on how enslaved people benefited.The monument to Till and his mother will include three sites in the two states. Till was visiting relatives in Mississippi when Carolyn Bryant Donham said the 14-year-old Till whistled and made sexual advances at her while she worked in a store in the small community of Money.
The monument will be the fourth Biden has created since taking office in 2021, and just his latest tribute to the younger Till.
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Biden to establish national monument honoring Emmett Till and Mamie Till-MobleyEditor’s note: “The Lost Story of Emmett Till: The Universal Child,” part one of NBC Chicago’s three-part Emmett Till docuseries, can be viewed in the player above. President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his…
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Biden to establish national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in MississippiBiden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official.
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