“When a memorial to victims of brutality and violence is met with brutality and violence, it strikes a chilling nerve and shows how far we have to go,' Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee professor, says. - NBCBLK
The killing and photos of Till’s mutilated body at his funeral shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement.
At other memorials, updated security measures have helped authorities locate suspects. In September, a 65-year-old woman was arrested after police say she defaceddedicated to Korean women forced into sex slavery during World War II. Police said surveillance footage showed her using a marker to scribble on the monument. She’s suspected of defacing the monument several times before and of writing racist graffiti on area buildings.
Derek H. Alderman, a University of Tennessee geography professor, said such vandalism is “an attack on memory.” Those claims involve marginalized groups pressing to be remembered while white nationalists and racists refuse to acknowledge those struggles, he said.
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