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For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story - The Associated Press
7/26/23 at 2:01am
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Aaron Morrison Emily Wagster Pettus
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President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement. The Emmett Till and Mamie…
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