
President Joe Biden signed a proclamation approving the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. https://bit.ly/3DnS4lr
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President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday approving the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. The date marks the 82nd anniversary of Till’s birth.
Till was 14 when he traveled from his hometown of Chicago to Mississippi to visit relatives in 1955. Till was accused of flirting or whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman working at a store.
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