Flowers laid at the grave of Emmett Till 68 year after his brutalized body was found in Mississippi river
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Sixty-eight years after Emmett Till's murder, his family gathered to lay flowers at his grave and at the grave of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Thursday marks 68 years since Till's brutalized body was found in a Mississippi river after the Black boy from Chicago was lynched by an all-white mob.
The roses on the gravesite are a gift from the people of Mississippi. Last month, President Biden established a national monument to honor his memory.
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