A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument plans to unveil a larger-than-life statue of Emmett Till.
life-sized bronze statue of Till-Mobley
“Now there's interest in it, and that's a godsend,” Parker said. “You know what his mother said: ‘I hope he didn’t die in vain.'" “So much has been said about this case,” Jordan said this week. “Hopefully, it will bring all of us together.” Jordan, who is Black, was a college student in September 1955 when he drove to the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner to watch the murder trial of two white men charged with killing Till — Carolyn's husband Roy Bryant and his half brother, J.W. Milam.
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