BVN Staff The Chicago home of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching galvanized the civil rights movement when his mother insisted his mutilated body be displayed in an open casket, has been granted landmark status. The City Council issued an ordinance that protects the South Side home from demolition. Emmett and his mother […]
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