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Emmett Till, 13-years-old, on Christmas Day, 1954. Photograph taken by Mamie Till Bradley
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, the black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said at the weekend.
Mr Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Tuesday is the anniversary of Emmett Till’s birth in 1941.
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