Emmett Till Memorial, Marred by Vandalism for More Than 10 Years, Is Now Bullet-Proof
For more than 50 years, there was no marker at all to commemorate the lynching of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Chicago boy brutally murdered by two white men while visiting his family in Mississippi. That changed in 2008 when the first memorial was erected on the banks of the Tallahatchie River, where local"