Divided Nation: New Monuments to Emmett Till; New Racism in Textbooks

Divided Nation: New Monuments to Emmett Till; New Racism in Textbooks

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President Joe Biden was 12 years old in 1955 when Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured, shot, and thrown into the Tallahatchie River, in Mississippi. Till's murder sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement. This week, Biden signed a proclamation to create three federal monuments to honor the…

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