Emmett Till, Mamie Till-Mobley posthumously awarded Congressional Gold Medal ...Middle East

Nearly 70 years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered by two white men, the House has passed a resolution to posthumously award both he and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the Congressional Gold Medal. The resolution, titled the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021, was introduced by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in February 2021. The act passed in the Senate in early January of this year. In July, Burr honored what would have been Till’s 81st birthday by urging the House to pass the act. “Emmett Till’s horrific murder and the unjust acquittal of his killers shocked the nation and made plain the evil

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