Emmett Till honored with statue in Mississippi community

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till on Friday, not far from where white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager over accusations that he flirted with a white woman in a country store.

The 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after Till’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago so the world could see the horrors inflicted on her 14-year-old son. Jet magazine published photos of his mutilated body, which had been pulled from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi.

The 9-foot (2.7-meter) tall bronze statue in Greenwood is a jaunty depiction of the living Till in slacks, a dress shirt and a tie with one hand on the brim of a hat.

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., the last living witness to the kidnapping of his cousin Till from a family home, said he won’t be able to travel from Illinois to attend Friday’s dedication ceremony. But he told The Associated Press on Wednesday: “We just thank God someone is keeping his name out there.”

https://apnews.com/article/emmett-till-illinois-mississippi-chicago-greenwood-3f3b5d2324b97bdde30249cd40357ebb

[Meadowoak]

1. Better put security cameras on it, the MAGA will try to vandalize it.

[tishaLA]

2. Just a couple months ago a MS grand jury refused to indict

the woman whose claims against him led to Mr Till's death. The statue is nice, but an indictment and trial would have shown something akin to a commitment to justice.