President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, a White House official says. Emmett Till is the Black teenager who was tortured and killed in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
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On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris criticized a revised Black history curriculum in Florida that includes teaching that enslaved people benefited from the skills they learned at the hands of the people who denied them freedom. The Florida Board of Education approved the curriculum to satisfy legislation signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate who has accused public schools of liberal indoctrination.
DeSantis said he had no role in devising his state’s new education standards but defended the components on how enslaved people benefited.The monument to Till and his mother will include three sites in the two states. Till was later abducted and his body eventually pulled from the Tallahatchie River, where he had been tossed after he was shot and weighted down with a cotton gin fan.
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Biden to establish national monument honoring Emmett Till and Mamie Till-MobleyEditor’s note: “The Lost Story of Emmett Till: The Universal Child,” part one of NBC Chicago’s three-part Emmett Till docuseries, can be viewed in the player above. President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his…
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Biden to establish national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in MississippiBiden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official.
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Biden to establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in MississippiPresident Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
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