A Mississippi historical marker about a
notorious lynching that galvanized the civil rights movement was
rededicated Tuesday, weeks after it was vandalized and repaired.
The sign commemorates Emmett Till, the black
teenager kidnapped and lynched in 1955 after whistling at a white woman
working in a grocery store where he and his cousins had gone to buy
candy.
The re-dedication took place on what would have been Till's 76th birthday.
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