President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into law three new national monuments honoring the life of Chicago native Emmett Till.
In 1955, Till, a black teenager, was beaten, shot, and mutilated in Mississippi four days after a white woman accused him of whistling at her. Now, three new monuments, with one in Chicago, will honor the life of till, that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. Illinois Lt. Governor Julianna Stratton was with President Biden as he signed the new law.
Tuesday marked the 82nd anniversary of Till's birthday in 1941. Now that the site is considered federal property, the site will receive around one hundred 80-thousand dollars a year in funding from the National Park Service.
