President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Chicagoan and civil rights icon Emmett Till and his mother Tuesday on what would have been his 82nd birthday.
President Joe Biden signs proclamation to establish Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississ...
A federal grant program honoring the murdered Black boy will be used for exhibits at the Greenwood Cultural Center and police training on forensics.
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''Tulsa is looking to use more than $1 million from the federal government earmarked for solving racially motivated cold cases. The city says it’s putting the funds toward education.
Tulsa was awarded the money through the U.S Department of Justice’s Emmett Till Cold Case program.
Till was a 14-year-old boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman.'
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