U.S. President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday establishing a national monument honouring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago, whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the civil rights movement.
The proclamation also honours Mamie Till-Mobley, Till’s mother.
With the stroke of Biden’s pen, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, located across three separate sites in Mississippi and Chicago, will be federally protected places.
Till’s living family members, along with a national organization seeking to preserve Black cultural heritage sites, say their work protecting the Till legacy continues even after Tuesday’s declaration. They hope to
