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Emmett Till honored by White House with national monument

President Biden will reportedly establish a national monument this week to honor Emmett Till, the Black teen from Chicago whose 1955 lynching while on vacation in Mississippi helped galvanize the civil rights movement. On the anniversary of Till's death, Biden signed a proclamation to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi. LiveNOW's Lexie Petrovic spoke with Benjamin Saulsberry from the Emmett Till Interpretive Center about the significance. More LiveNOW from FOX streaming video