President Joe Biden Establishing Monument Honoring Emmett Till

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And today President Biden is set to establish a monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mammy Till Mobley. The Chicago teenager was abducted, tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955 when he was just 14 years old. The monument honoring the black teenager will be located in three key sites in Illinois and Mississippi. The locations include the site believed to be where Till's body was found, the church where Till's memorial was held and the courthouse where the murder trial and acquittal for his accused killers took place.