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