President Biden dedicated a new national monument Tuesday honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
The National Parks Conservation Association has been working with members of the Till family and others to create a new park unit that honors Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Recently, WABE’s Jim Burress talked to Alan Spears, senior director of cultural resources and government affairs at the National Parks Conservation Association, about the significance of the designation.
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