![]() ![]() ![]() Marvel Parker, Project Director for the Roberts Temple Restoration Initiative and wife of Rev. Join us to learn about the campaign to create an Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Park in Chicago and the Mississippi Delta.ĭr. Today, the Till family in Chicago, the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in the Mississippi Delta and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are working together to preserve, restore, and interpret important sites associated with the life and murder of Emmett Till and the miscarriage of justice that followed. The brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till shocked the nation, and his mother's brave choice to hold an open casket service, to "let the world see what I've seen," helped spark the American Civil Rights Movement. Jmarks what should have been Emmett Till's 80th birthday, had he not been murdered in 1955 in the Mississippi Delta by a group of white men. ![]()
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