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I'm Jason Epperson, and it's time for this month's National Park News Roundup. 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched on August 28, 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi.

Mamie Till Mobley's decision to hold an open casket funeral for her son rocked the nation

and helped spur the modern civil rights movement.

Efforts by the NAACP, the Black Press, and others to help Till Mobley investigate and

amplify her son's story caused the world to bear witness to the racially motivated violence

and injustice that many black people endured in the Jim Crow South.

An all white, all male jury was selected and ultimately acquitted the killers who later confessed to their crimes in a paid interview with a magazine.

No one was ever held legally accountable for Till's death.

On July 25th, the Emmett Till and Mamy Till Mobley National Monument became the country's 425th National Park Service Unit on the 82nd anniversary of Till's birth, Designated by President Biden, the new national monument includes sites

in the Mississippi Delta and Chicago that were central to Emmett Till's lynching

and funeral, the acquittal of his murderers and the subsequent activism by his mother.

Grayble Landing in Glendora, Mississippi is the area

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