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"Darkness and denialism can hide much but they erase nothing," Biden told guests in the ornate, marble-edged Indian Treaty Room next to the White House, before signing the proclamation. [1/5]U.S. President Joe Biden signs a proclamation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Illinois and Mississippi, at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2023. Signs erected at Graball Landing since 2008 to commemorate Till's killing have been repeatedly defaced by gunfire. Biden screened a film recounting the killing and its aftermath, "Till," at the White House in February. Last March, he signed into law a bipartisan bill named for Till that for the first time made lynching a federal hate crime.

Persons: Joe Biden, Emmett Till, Mamie Till, Bradley, Biden, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Frantz, Patrick Weems, Emmett, Thomas Edison's, Wheeler Parker Jr, Till's, Parker, Trevor Hunnicutt, Jonathan Allen, Steve Holland, Heather Timmons, Lincoln, Mark Porter Organizations: Rights, White, Republican, REUTERS, Temple Church of God, National Park Service, of, Thomson Locations: Chicago, Money , Mississippi, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Washington , U.S, Tallahatchie, Sumner , Mississippi, America, Washington

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday will honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, and his mother with a national monument across two states. One of the monument sites is the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Chicago, where Till's funeral took place. REUTERS/Brian SnyderSigns erected at Graball Landing since 2008 to commemorate Till's killing have been repeatedly defaced by gunfire. Any future vandalism would be investigated by federal law enforcement rather than local police, according to Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi. Biden, an 80-year-old Democrat, will likely need strong support from Black voters to secure a second term in the 2024 presidential election.

Persons: Joe Biden, Emmett Till, Mamie Till, Bradley, Wheeler Parker Jr, Till's, Parker, Roberts, Banutu, Gomez, George Floyd, Brian Snyder, Patrick Weems, Emmett, Thomas Edison, Biden, Donald Trump, Christopher Benson, Trevor Hunnicutt, Jonathan Allen, Heather Timmons Organizations: Rights, White, Roberts Temple Church of God, REUTERS, National Park Service, of Liberty, Republican, Mobley Institute, Thomson Locations: Chicago, Money , Mississippi, America, Mississippi, Washington, Tallahatchie, Minneapolis, Lynn , Massachusetts, U.S, Sumner , Mississippi, Summit , Illinois, Lincoln

☆ Biden designates new Emmett Till monument as debates over U.S. history intensify
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

"Darkness and denialism can hide much but they erase nothing," Biden told guests in the ornate, marble edged Indian Treaty Room next to the White House, before signing the proclamation. One of the monument sites is his funeral location, Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, in Chicago. Signs erected at Graball Landing since 2008 to commemorate Till's killing have been repeatedly defaced by gunfire. Any future vandalism would be investigated by federal law enforcement rather than local police, according to Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in Sumner, Mississippi. He screened a film recounting the lynching, "Till," at the White House in February.

Persons: Joe Biden, Emmett Till, Mamie Till, Kamala Harris, Bradley, Biden, Patrick Weems, Emmett, Thomas Edison's, Wheeler Parker Jr, Till's, Parker, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Christopher Benson Organizations: White, Rights, Temple Church of God, National Park Service, of, Republican, Florida Governor, Mobley Institute Locations: theIndian, Washington , DC, Chicago, Money , Mississippi, Mississippi, Tallahatchie, Sumner , Mississippi, America, Washington, Summit , Illinois

☆ Biden to Name National Monument for Emmett Till and His Mother
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Anna Betts | More About Anna Betts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden will establish a national monument on Tuesday honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955, and paying tribute to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, according to White House officials. Emmett’s murder and the subsequent activism of his mother helped propel the civil rights movement, and Mr. Biden will memorialize both individuals when he signs a proclamation naming the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument. As defined by the National Park Service, a national monument is a protected area similar to a national park. The new monument will consist of three protected sites in Illinois, where Emmett was from, and Mississippi, where he was killed. A third site is the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Sumner, Miss., where an all-white jury acquitted Emmett’s killers.

Persons: Biden, Emmett Till, Mamie Till, Mobley, Emmett Organizations: White, National Park Service, Temple Church of God Locations: Illinois, Mississippi, Tallahatchie County, Miss, Sumner

☆ Biden will create a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 murder was a catalyst for the civil-rights movement, on what would have been his 82nd birthday
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

President Joe Biden will create a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Till's murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The monument locations will consist of a site in Chicago and two sites in rural Mississippi. Bryant and Milam then tortured and lynched the teenager before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River. In March 2022, Biden signed into law the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in US history.

Persons: Joe Biden, Emmett Till, Mamie Till, Mobley, Till's, Biden, Emmett Till's, Carolyn Bryant Donham, Donham, Roy Bryant, Bryant, Till, Moses Wright, Milam, Pell Grant Organizations: Service, White, Black, Roberts Temple Church of God, Supreme Locations: Mississippi, Chicago, Wall, Silicon, The Illinois, Bronzeville, The Mississippi, Tallahatchie, Sumner

☆ Mississippi unveils Emmett Till statue near where white men kidnapped and killed Black teen decades earlier
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

“It’s beautiful to be here,” said Webster, attending the ceremony on a sunny afternoon during a visit with Mississippi relatives. In 2007, a Mississippi prosecutor presented evidence to a grand jury of Black and white Leflore County residents after investigators spent three years re-examining the killing. This year, a group searching the Leflore County Courthouse basement found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for “Mrs. Roy Bryant.” In August, another Mississippi grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict Donham, causing consternation for Till relatives and activists. The Till statue in Greenwood will be watched by security cameras.

☆ Mississippi community with Confederate monument gets Emmett Till statue
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for allegedly whistling at a white woman in a country store. In 2007, a Mississippi prosecutor presented evidence to a grand jury of Black and white Leflore County residents after investigators spent three years re-examining the killing. This year, a group searching the Leflore County Courthouse basement found an unserved 1955 arrest warrant for “Mrs. Roy Bryant.” In August, another Mississippi grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict Donham, causing consternation for Till relatives and activists. The Till statue in Greenwood will be watched by security cameras.

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