A civil rights landmark in Mississippi that commemorates the death of Emmett Till has been vandalized, The Associated Press reported Monday.
The sign, which has been defaced before, was scraped so badly that information and photos about Till’s brutal death have been obliterated.
Students from Cultural Leadership,
a St. Louis-based nonprofit that teaches young adults how to become
civil rights leaders, were present at the site after the sign was
vandalized and were disheartened by the destruction.
Dani Gottlieb, a 16-year-old from Cultural Leadership, told HuffPost that she was expecting to see “flowers growing in Emmett Till’s honor” at the landmark, “not a torn-down marker.”
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Source: The Huffington Post
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