Biden to Designate National Monument , in Honor of Emmett Till and His Mother.<br />Biden to Designate National Monument , in Honor of Emmett Till and His Mother.<br />Three places in Illinois and Mississippi will display the new monument, NPR reports. .<br />Those locations are Chicago's <br />Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ, <br />which is where Till's funeral was held in 1955.<br />Graball Landing in Mississippi, where Till's body was discovered in the river.<br />and the Tallahatchie County Second District Courthouse in Mississippi, where the men who killed Till were acquitted by a jury a white peers. .<br />President Biden will sign a proclamation designating the national monument on July 25.<br />That date also represents what <br />would have been Till's 82nd birthday. .<br />Till was kidnapped, tortured and murdered at the age of 14 when he was accused of grabbing and flirting with a white woman.<br />The men who were acquitted in <br />his murder later confessed to the killing <br />in an interview with a magazine.<br />Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who accused Till of harassing her, later confessed that her testimony was a lie. .<br />Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, was "instrumental in keeping the story of <br />[his] murder alive," NPR reports.
