{"id":1980686,"date":"2023-07-23T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-expected-to-unveil-plans-for-national-monument-in-honor-of-emmett-till\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T14:00:48","slug":"biden-expected-to-unveil-plans-for-national-monument-in-honor-of-emmett-till","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-expected-to-unveil-plans-for-national-monument-in-honor-of-emmett-till\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden to reveal national monument plans for Emmett Till."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-expected-to-unveil-plans-for-national-monument-in-honor-of-emmett-till%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=1980686&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--><h2>President Joe Biden to Create National Monument Honoring Emmett Till<\/h2>\n<p>President \u2062Joe Biden is set to establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">national monument<\/a> in honor\u200b of the\u200b late Emmett Till. On the \u2062anniversary of Till&#8217;s birthday, Biden \u2063plans \u2064to sign a proclamation, as confirmed by a White House official speaking to the Associated Press \u200bon condition of anonymity. Till, a 14-year-old black boy, was tragically shot and killed by a \u200cgroup of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-celebs-rage-in-defeat-after-barrett-confirmation-revolting-disgraceful-unconscionable\/\" title=\"Hollywood Celebs Rage in Defeat After Barrett Confirmation: 'Revolting. Disgraceful. Unconscionable'\">white men<\/a> in Mississippi in 1955, \u200dallegedly for flirting with a \u200bwhite woman named Carol \u2064Bryant. His\u200b body was then weighted down with \u2062barbed wire and thrown into\u200d the Tallahatchie River, tied \u2064to a\u200d cotton gin wheel.<\/p>\n<h3>Proposed Monument\u2063 Sites<\/h3>\n<p>There \u200bare three \u2064proposed sites for the monument. The first is Graball Landing in Mississippi, where\u200b Till&#8217;s body was \u2064discovered. The second site is the Tallahatchie County\u2064 Second \u2062District Courthouse\u200c in Sumner, Mississippi, where Till&#8217;s \u2064murderers, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were acquitted. The third site is the Roberts Temple \u200bChurch of God in Christ in\u2062 Bronzeville,\u2063 Illinois, Till&#8217;s home state, where his funeral took \u200bplace. \u200dDuring the funeral, Till&#8217;s\u200d mother, Mamie \u2063Till-Mobley, chose\u200b to have \u200can open-casket service to draw attention to her son&#8217;s tragic death.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has shown his commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-lefts-favorite-internet-historian-a-plagiarist\/\" title=\"Is the Left's Favorite Internet Historian a Plagiarist?\">civil rights history<\/a> and the memory of Emmett \u200bTill. During Black History Month, he hosted a screening of the film &#8220;Till&#8221; at the White House, which is based on Till&#8217;s mother&#8217;s story.\u2062 Prior\u200c to the screening, the president\u200d emphasized the importance of\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-expected-to-unveil-plans-for-national-monument-in-honor-of-emmett-till\/\" title=\"Biden to reveal national monument plans for Emmett Till.\">teaching civil rights \u200chistory<\/a>. The unanimous passage of the\u200d Emmett Till Antilynching Act in\u2064 the Senate, followed by a 422-3 vote in the \u2063House, suggests that a monument \u2063honoring Till would \u2063be well-received \u2064in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>This legislation is\u200d the result of Biden&#8217;s campaign\u2062 against racially-motivated \u200dcrimes. Before the 2020 election, he spoke out against the shooting murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, describing it as a cold-blooded \u2062lynching. Biden also acknowledged and apologized \u200dfor using the term &#8220;lynching&#8221; during President Clinton&#8217;s impeachment hearings in 2019,\u200b recognizing that it \u2062was inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read \u200cmore from The\u200c Washington\u2063 Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is set to establish a national monument commemorating Emmett Till, with a proclamation scheduled for Tuesday, Till&#8217;s birthday. 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