Washington Today (7-25:-23): President creates national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother

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President Joe Biden signs an executive order creating the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument at sights in Mississippi where in 1955, 14 year old Emmit Till was lynched and an all-white jury acquitted the killers, and in Chicago, where his mother held an open-casket funeral, pictures of which went national, giving impetus to the civil right movement.

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