Mississippi town honors Emmett Till

On October 21, hundreds of people gathered in the town of Greenwood, Mississippi, for the unveiling of a statue of Emmett Till. The monument is designed to stand as a permanent reminder of a tragic event in American history. Emmett Till was a Black American teenager who grew up in Chicago, Illinois. In 1955, at age 14, he traveled to visit family members in Mississippi. At the time, the area was highly segregated (unjustly separated by race). During a trip to a store in the community of Money, Mississippi, on August 24, Till was reportedly heard whistling at a white shopkeeper named Carolyn Bryant. Four days later, Till was kidnapped, beaten, and killed by two white men. An all-white jury acquitted (declared not guilty) Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother,…

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