Posted on Oct 20, 2019
Emmett Till: new memorial to murdered teen is bulletproof
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A new memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated on Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized.
The new marker is bulletproof.
Till, 14, was kidnapped, beaten and killed in 1955, hours after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His body was found in a river days later. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted two white men of murder charges.
The brutal killing helped spur the civil rights movement.
Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, said the new marker was dedicated on Saturday. Members of Till’s family, including a cousin who was there the night Till was kidnapped, attended the ceremony at the site where the teen’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie river.
The new marker is bulletproof.
Till, 14, was kidnapped, beaten and killed in 1955, hours after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His body was found in a river days later. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted two white men of murder charges.
The brutal killing helped spur the civil rights movement.
Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, said the new marker was dedicated on Saturday. Members of Till’s family, including a cousin who was there the night Till was kidnapped, attended the ceremony at the site where the teen’s body was pulled from the Tallahatchie river.
Emmett Till: new memorial to murdered teen is bulletproof
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 10:44 PM ET, Thu June 4, 2020
SOURCE :
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/mcmichaels-hearing-ahmaud-arbery/index.html
What We Know About the Shooting Death of Ahmaud Arbery
Mr. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was chased by armed white residents of a South Georgia neighborhood. They were arrested months later and are scheduled to face trial in October.
July 13, 2021
SOURCE :
https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georgia.html
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By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 10:44 PM ET, Thu June 4, 2020
SOURCE :
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/mcmichaels-hearing-ahmaud-arbery/index.html
What We Know About the Shooting Death of Ahmaud Arbery
Mr. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was chased by armed white residents of a South Georgia neighborhood. They were arrested months later and are scheduled to face trial in October.
July 13, 2021
SOURCE :
https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georgia.html
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Ahmaud Arbery was hit with a truck before he died, and his killer allegedly used a racial slur,...
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