President Joe Biden plans to name a new national monument after Emmett Till, a White House official told CNN, honoring the Black teenager whose murder in 1955 helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
Biden will designate the monument on Tuesday, which would have been Till’s 82nd birthday. “The new monument will protect places that tell the story of Emmett Till’s too-short life and racially-motivated murder, the unjust acquittal of his murderers, and the activism of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who courageously brought the world’s attention to the brutal injustices and racism of the time, catalyzing the civil rights movement,” a White House official said.
Some Republican-led states have enacted new standards that critics say sanitize history, including the realities of slavery and of racist violence. The Biden administration has demonstrated new willingness to push back on those new policies.
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