A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized.
The Emmett Till case is reopened nearly 63 years after the teen’s killing spotlighted racial violence
The investigation into the death of Emmett Till, one of the most notorious slayings of the Jim Crow-era Deep South, has been reopened more than 60 years after the 14-year-old African American boy’s mutilated body was pulled out of Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River. Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, said the new marker was dedicated Saturday.Members of Till’s family attended the ceremony at the site where the teen’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River.The first historical marker was placed in 2008. Someone tossed it in the river. The second and third signs were shot at and left riddled with bullet holes.
In 2007, the department referred the case to Mississippi prosecutors. However, a grand jury declined to bring a manslaughter indictment against the woman who made — and later partially recanted — the allegations against Till, Carolyn Bryant Donham.
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