Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley honored with national monuments
By Ashleigh Fields, AFRO Assistant Editor, afields@afro.com Emmett Till’s and Mamie Till Mobley’s family members, legislators and civil rights advocates gathered in the Indian Treaty Room on July 25 to watch as President Biden signed a national proclamation to erect three national monuments in Till’s honor. “I spent my early years as a sharecropper and