Senate passes bill to award Emmett Till, his mother Congressional Gold Medal

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The Senate passed a bill to posthumously award Emmett Till and his mother with the Congressional Gold Medal.

The Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to posthumously award Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor Congress can give.in 1955 and his mother's decision to hold an open casket funeral helped spark the civil rights movement.

Till, who was 14 at the time, was abducted, tortured and murdered in Mississippi by white supremacists.

 

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