President Joe Biden has established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, as well as his mother, a White House official said. Till’s lynching and the activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the civil rights movement. Mr Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday 25 July which was Till’s birthday. It comes a year after he signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include three separate sites in two states – Illinois and Mississippi.
Emmett Till: US President Joe Biden to establish national monument for murdered teen – BBC News
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