A cultural preservation organization announced Tuesday that Emmett Till's Chicago house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African American history.
, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman.$3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sitesSome of the grant money from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will go to rehabilitate buildings, such as a bank in Mississippi founded by a man described by Booker T.
Till’s brutal slaying helped galvanize the civil rights movement. The Chicago home where Mamie Till Mobley and her son lived will receive funding for a project director to oversee restoration efforts, including renovating the second floor to what it looked like when the Tills lived there. Plywood covers windows on the first floor of the two-flat building where Emmett Till lived with his mother on March 22, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. The home gained Chicago landmark status and there are plans to turn it into a museum.
And the news follows a recent revelation about the discovery of an unserved arrest warrant of the woman whose accusation put in motion the chain of events that led to the teen’s lynching.A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping.
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