On this day in 1955, #EmmettTill was murdered by two white men in #mississippi. His crime? Whistling at a white woman.

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Black teenager Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi 68 years ago today.

#EmmettTill #BlackHistory #racism #civilrights

Today in Labor History August 28, 1955: Teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered on this day in Money, Mississippi, for speaking "inappropriately" to a white woman. The brutality of the murder and the lack of justice for his family helped to mobilize opposition to segregation in America. An all-white jury acquitted Till’s killers, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam. The next year, both men publicly admitted in an interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered the boy. The magazine paid them selling $4,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2022) for the story. Between 1876 and 1930, over 500 African Americans were lynched in Mississippi, alone, and over 3,000 across the South. A memorial marker for Emmett Till, erected in 2006, was defaced with "KKK", and then completely covered with black paint. 8 more markers were erected at sites associated with Till's lynching in 2007. Some of these were vandalized, too. One of the signs received over 100 bullet holes. In 2018, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posting to Instagram a photo of them posing in front of the bullet-riddled marker, with guns.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #racism #lynching #Kkk #EmmettTill #mississippi #JimCrow #torture #BlackMastadon

Never forget Emmett Till. He should still be with us. #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #EmmettTill

#EmmettTill’s Memory Haunts the #History #RonDeSantis Wants to Suppress
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/amy-goodman-and-denis-moynihan/107142/emmett-till-s-memory-haunts-the-history-ron-desantis-wants-to-suppress

#Biden Demands #America Confront Dark #History With #Racism at #EmmettTill Ceremony: ‘Silence is Complicity’
https://www.mediaite.com/biden/biden-demands-america-confront-dark-history-with-racism-at-emmett-till-ceremony-silence-is-complicity/

Biden designates a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother
#EmmettTill #US #news
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1189664409/emmett-till-national-monuments-biden

Biden attacks curbs on teaching US' racist history as he honors Emmett Till with monument
#News #EmmettTill #US
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-names-new-emmett-till-monument-us-grapples-with-racist-history-2023-07-25/

“Those who seek to ban books & bury #history will not succeed. While darkness & denialism can hide much, they erase nothing. Only w/ #truth comes healing, #justice, repair & another step twrd forming a more perfect union.

We can’t just choose to learn what we want to know abt our history. We have to learn what we should know...everything: the good, bad, truth of who we are as a nation. That’s what great nations do & we are a great nation. #JoeBiden at #EmmettTill Antilynching Act signing

@wjmaggos I think many cared but weren't vocal, but also #JeffreyEpstein sort of exposed how prevalent sex trafficking really is in the #USA. IMHO, that seems to be the nexus. Kinda similar to how we didn't really see tons of people shooting up abortion clinics until #KermitGosnell got exposed for keeping the body parts of babies in jars.

But this is a very typical trend for things like this. Nobody in the #USA cared about terrorism until the 9/11 attacks. #EmmettTill's vicious murder was a turning point in the civil rights movement. When people hear about extreme cases of egregious behavior, they are more likely to care about less severe instances of similar things happening.

New National Park Service site cites Mamie Till’s decision to leave brutality on display with an open casket as sparking “modern civil rights movement”. NPS also opened site in Mississippi where Till was murdered over what woman once (& never again) admitted was a false allegation.

#EmmettTill #NPS #CivilRights #SouthernWhiteNationalists

https://chicago.suntimes.com/black-history/2023/7/25/23807415/biden-emmett-till-mamie-till-mobley-national-monument-new-national-park-service-site-chicago

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🎙NEW EPISODE (Tuesday) - THE POLITICRAT daily #podcast Season 4, Episode 130: Emmett Till’s 82nd Birthday; Attorney Bryan Stevenson On Disability Rights On The 33rd Anniversary Of Americans With Disabilities Act

https://bit.ly/3DrsFY5 #EmmettTill #MamieTillMobley #ApplePodcasts #r4today #Mastodon #BlackMastodon

Let us not be seduced into believing that somehow we will be better if we forget. We will be better if we remember. We will be stronger if we remember. We all here know it is only by understanding and learning from our past that we can continue working together to build a better future.

~ VP Kamala Harris at the proclamation of the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument

#EmmettTill #KamalaHarris #racism #history

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/president-biden-establishes-the-emmett

#EmmettTill should be alive today!
His killers should have gone to prison!
His accuser should have been prosecuted!
Justice was not served!

Earlier today: At the White House President Biden signs proclamation for monuments to Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley in both Illinois and Mississippi. Today is Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday. 🙏🏿 #EmmettTill #MamieTillMobley #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #USA

In 2008, the #FBI reopened the case and dozens of others under the #EmmettTill Unsolved #CivilRights Crime Act, which directed the #DepartmentOfJustice and the FBI to investigate unpunished racially motivated #homicides from before 1970. (Read the text of the act: https://www.congress.gov/110/plaws/publ344/PLAW-110publ344.pdf) 3/

Happy birthday to Emmett Till, he would've turned 82 years old today. #emmetttill #civilrights

Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr, cousin of Emmett Till, speaking today at a presidential signing ceremony proclaming a monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother Mamie Till Mobley. The monument, President Biden announced, will be located in both Illinois and Mississippi. #EmmettTill #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #USA

WATCH LIVE: #Biden signs proclamation for monument honoring #EmmettTill and mother Mamie Till-Mobley https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-live-biden-signs-proclamation-for-monument-honoring-emmett-till-and-mother-mamie-till-mobley