Three University of Mississippi students were suspended from the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity after posing with firearms in front of a memorial sign dedicated to Emmitt Till.
Three University of Mississippi students were suspended from the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity on Wednesday after posing with firearms in front of a memorial sign dedicated to Emmitt Till, the African American teen whose brutal 1955 murder would become a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The students' suspension came the day before what would have been Till's 71st birthday.
In 2009, the fraternity apologized after a parade of men in Confederate uniforms stopped in front of a historically black sorority house at the University of Alabama. The fraternity has since banned displaying the Confederate flag and wearing the uniform at events.that the public university, commonly referred to as Ole Miss, learned about the photo in March after it was reported to the Bias Incident Response team.
The Ole Miss Kappa Alpha chapter confirmed the men in the photo were suspended but said that it was not taken during a chapter event or activity. Signs dedicated to Till have been vandalized in the past at a rate that Weems characterized as"persistent." Sometimes the vandalism occurs quickly after the signs are erected, other times they've been left alone for six months or a year.
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