emmett till family
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Bipartisan Call in the Senate for Congressional Gold Medal to be Awarded to Emmett Till and His Mother
In a rare moment of bi-partisanship, a Republican and Democratic senator have called for the nation’s highest civilian honor to be awarded posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. NBC News reports that Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) introduced a bill to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to…
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The Department of Justice Is Still Investigating Emmett Till’s Murder…Kinda
Six decades after a white woman’s murderous lie incited the white supremacist lynching that pushed the civil rights movement into second gear, Department of Justice officials told Congress they were still looking into it. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Department of Justice updated Congress on the progress of cold civil rights cases.…
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Simeon Wright, Cousin Who Witnessed Emmett Till’s Kidnapping the Night of Emmett’s Brutal Murder, Dies at 74
Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till who witnessed Emmett’s kidnapping and was the last to see Emmett alive, died Monday morning in his home in Countryside, Ill., at the age of 74. Wright’s wife, Annie, confirmed that her husband had died after suffering from complications from a form of bone cancer, the Chicago Tribune…
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Jeff Sessions Met With Emmett Till’s Family, but Will He Give Emmett Justice?
Emmett Till’s family members met privately with Jeff Sessions, head of the U.S. Department of Justice, to ask him for … well … justice. The U.S. attorney general met with Emmett’s cousin—Deborah Watts, the co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation—and Alvin Sykes, a member of the Emmett Till Justice Campaign, on Tuesday. Emmett’s relatives…