The original memorial for the slain civil rights icon was removed last week after a photo surfaced of three Ole Miss students posing with guns in front it.
N'dea Yancey-BraggBullet holes cover the sign that marks the location where Emmett Till's body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River.The vandalized memorial for slain civil rights icon Emmett Till will be replaced with a bulletproof sign following outrage over a photograph of three University of Mississippi students posing with guns in front of the bullet-riddled marker.
"Unlike the first three signs, this sign calls attention to the vandalism itself," the commission said in a news release."We believe it is important to keep a sign at this historic site, but we don’t want to hide the legacy of racism by constantly replacing broken signs." "We’re under no naivete that this is going to end," the commission’s executive director, Patrick Weems, told the outlet."The manufacturers said that this is a bulletproof sign. We'll test that theory."
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