March 27, 2023

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till traveled from his home in Chicago to visit family in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 before being brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Now the home on Chicago’s South Side where Till lived with his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, will receive a portion of a grant intended to help preserve African American history.

Source: Emmett Till’s Chicago Home Will Be Preserved!

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