Biden to establish national monument honoring Emmett Till

President to sign proclamation on Tuesday for monuments across three sites honoring Black teen who was lynched in 1955

Joe Biden is expected to sign a proclamation to establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose abduction, torture and lynching in Mississippi in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman helped to galvanize the civil rights movement.

A White House spokesmen told the Associated Press that Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday - which falls on Till's birthday, 25 July 1941 - to create national monuments to the slain 14-year-old and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi.