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Related: "The bulletproof marker to Emmett Till at Graball Landing, in Mississippi Selected by Sarah Lewis President Joe Biden, in his last days in office, announced an act to create a monument to Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. Near Glendora, Miss., is a marker that offers evidence of the need for this act—a marker that is deliberately 500 lbs. and bulletproof, covered with abrasion-resistant acrylic. It is the fourth time a marker has been placed there; the first three were all shot and thrown in the Tallahatchie River, where Till was found. Till helped inspire the Civil Rights Movement that we know today; the resistance to honoring him speaks to the work that remains before we can all claim freedom on American ground. Lewis is the founder of the Vision and Justice initiative and currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University; she is also the organizer of the exhibition and book If Emmett Till Lived…, set to premiere in September." https://time.com/collection/our-america-250/2026/art-that-defines-america/