On Tuesday at about noon, President Joe Biden is expected to sign a proclamation that establishes the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley national monument in Illinois and Mississippi.
Emmett, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, a White House official said.
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Tuesday is the anniversary of Emmett Till’s birth in 1941.
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