Biden to establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till
The individual spoke on condition of anonymity because the White House had not formally announced the president’s plans.The monument will protect places that are central to the story of Till’s life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers and his mother’s activism.
Emmett Till, was a Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris criticized a revised Black history curriculum in Florida that includes teaching that enslaved people benefited from the skills they learned at the hands of the people who denied them freedom.the curriculum to satisfy legislation signed by Gov.
Two white men, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, were tried on murder charges about a month after Till was killed, but were aquitted.DeSantis said he had no role in devising his state’s new education standards but defended the components on how enslaved people benefited.The monument to Till and his mother will include three sites in the two states.The Illinois site is Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Bronzeville, a historically Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.
Two white men, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, were tried on murder charges about a month after Till was killed, but an all-white Mississippi jury acquitted them.
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