mississippi freedom trail
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Emmett Till Historical Marker in Miss. Destroyed by Vandals
A historical marker created in Mississippi to memorialize and educate the public about the 1955 kidnapping and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Till was destroyed by vandals who obliterated all visible information about the death that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Mamie Till Mobley had an open-casket funeral for her son to show how…