{"id":1212573,"date":"2022-01-12T21:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T02:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1212573"},"modified":"2022-01-12T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T02:19:45","slug":"senate-approves-bill-to-posthumously-give-emmett-till-and-his-mother-nations-highest-civilian-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-approves-bill-to-posthumously-give-emmett-till-and-his-mother-nations-highest-civilian-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Approves Bill To Posthumously Give Emmett Till And His Mother Nation\u2019s Highest Civilian Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-approves-bill-to-posthumously-give-emmett-till-and-his-mother-nations-highest-civilian-honor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1212573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The United States Senate approved legislation to posthumously grant the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.<\/p>\n<p>In 1955, Emmett Till \u2014 a 14-year-old African-American \u2014 was accused of whistling at a white woman at a grocery store in Mississippi. In response, the woman\u2019s husband and brother-in-law kidnapped, tortured, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/collections\/civil-rights-history-project\/articles-and-essays\/murder-of-emmett-till\/\">murdered<\/a> Till, disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River. In order to draw attention to the injustice enabled by Jim Crow segregation, Mamie Till-Mobley insisted on an open casket funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) \u2014 who proposed the legislation to give Till and his mother the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor \u2014 celebrated its passage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the age of 14, Emmett Till was abducted and lynched at the hands of white supremacists. His gruesome murder still serves as a solemn reminder of the terror and violence experienced by Black Americans throughout our nation\u2019s history,\u201d he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booker.senate.gov\/news\/press\/booker-applauds-senate-passage-of-legislation-to-posthumously-award-congressional-gold-medal-to-emmett-till-and-mamie-till-mobley\">statement<\/a>. \u201cThe courage and activism demonstrated by Emmett\u2019s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, in displaying to the world the brutality endured by her son helped awaken the nation\u2019s conscience, forcing America to reckon with its failure to address racism and the glaring injustices that stem from such hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than six decades after his murder, I am proud to see the Senate pass long-overdue legislation that would award the Congressional Gold Medal to both Emmett and Mamie Till-Mobley in recognition of their profound contributions to our nation,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, federal officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/federal-officials-close-cold-case-re-investigation-murder-emmett-till\">closed<\/a> the cold-case re-investigation of Till\u2019s murder, stating that it could not substantiate a claim that a witness in the Till case recanted her testimony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn early 2017, new information emerged suggesting that the woman may have confessed to a professor, who later wrote a book about Till\u2019s murder, that the account she provided to the state court in 1955 was untrue,\u201d a Department of Justice press release explained. \u201cSpecifically, the professor asserted that, during a 2008 interview with the woman, she handed him a transcript of her sworn 1955 testimony and said, \u2018[t]hat part\u2019s not true.\u2019 If credible, the professor\u2019s assertion suggests that the woman lied in state court and confessed to having done so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe alleged recantation raised questions about whether the woman would be willing to acknowledge to federal authorities that her prior versions of events had been untruthful and whether she now would provide new and accurate information relating to the abduction and murder of Till,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cThe woman however, when asked about the alleged recantation, denied to the FBI that she ever recanted her testimony and provided no information beyond what was uncovered during the previous federal investigation. Although lying to the FBI is a federal offense, there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she lied to the FBI when she denied having recanted to the professor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is insufficient evidence to prove that she ever told the professor that any part of her testimony was untrue,\u201d the agency added. \u201cAlthough the professor represented that he had recorded two interviews with her, he provided the FBI with only one recording, which did not contain any recantation. In addition, although an assistant transcribed the two recordings, neither transcript contained the alleged recantation. The professor also provided inconsistent explanations about whether the missing recording included the alleged recantation or whether, instead, the woman made the key admission before he began recording the interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Senate approved legislation to posthumously grant the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. In 1955, Emmett Till \u2014 a 14-year-old African-American \u2014 was accused of whistling at a white woman at a grocery store in Mississippi. In response, the woman\u2019s husband and brother-in-law kidnapped, tortured, and murdered &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}