Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
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The national monument to commemorate the sites of Emmett Till’s lynching and the church where his mother so bravely allowed his broken body to be seen by the public has been long in the planning. It just so happens that all the ducks were in a row at the very same time that Meatball Ron has unleashed a racist tirade against teaching the truth about slavery and Black history in America. But now it makes Biden announcing the monument all the more critical.
In 1955, the mother of Emmett Till wrote to President Dwight D. Eisenhower pleading for justice for her 14-year-old son, whose murder galvanized the civil rights movement.
In a telegram sent to the White House, she asked that he personally see to it that “justice is meted out to all persons involved in the beastly lynching of my son.”
She never heard back.
On Tuesday, 68 years later, another president offered her and her son the attention she had sought. President Biden established a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, a fierce advocate for her son who insisted on an open coffin at his funeral so the country could bear witness to the brutality he suffered.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument includes three protected sites, in Illinois, where Emmett was born 82 years ago to the day on Tuesday, and in Mississippi, where he was tortured and killed after being accused of whistling at a white woman.
The monument comes as Mr. Biden has made the case for reckoning with the legacy of racism in America, even as some Republicans try to restrict how Black history is taught.
“At a time when there are those who seek to ban books, bury history, we’re making it clear — crystal, crystal clear: While darkness and denialism can hide much, they erase nothing,” he said during a ceremony at the White House, which was attended by Vice President Kamala Harris as well as members of the Till family.
Importantly, this gives federal protection and the security involved in that to the lynching site in rural Mississippi, where white supremacists have routinely destroyed the historical markers noting it.
Also, Eisenhower sucked.