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Showing posts with label Emmet Till. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emmet Till. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

President Biden Designates Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument

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Today, on what would have been Emmett Till’s 82 nd  birthday, President Biden will sign a proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Emmett Till’s House among African American Historical Sites to Get Landmarks Funds

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Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abdu...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Watch bill signing ceremony for the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act

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On Tuesday President Biden signed the Emmet Till Anti-lynching Act making lynching a federal hate crime, which came after Congress failed ...
Monday, March 07, 2022

Sen. Cory Booker statement on Senate Passage of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act

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U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) issued the following statement on U.S. Senate Passage of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act: “After 200 f...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Congressional Gold Medal to be awarded posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley

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The Senate has passed a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white sup...
Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Rep. Bennie Thompson statement on the white supremacy group gathering at the Emmett Till Memorial

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Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS 2nd District) released a statement regarding the white supremacy group gathering at the Emmett Till Memoria...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

New Emmett Till bullet proof marker dedicated to replace vandalized sign

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A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandal...