NPS Considers Civil Rights Sites for Park Designation

https://www.nps.gov/articles/civilrightssites.htm

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In 2017, the U.S. Congress passed a law directing NPS to conduct a special resource study of Mississippi’s nationally significant civil rights sites, such as: •The home in Jackson where civil rights activist Medgar Evers resided with his wife and was killed in 1963. •Sites in the Mississippi Delta related to the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, including Bryant’s store and Tallahatchie County Courthouse. •The Old Neshoba County jail in Philadelphia, Miss., where civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were held for a speeding violation prior to being released and murdered by a mob for registering black voters in 1964. The Reverends Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy Sr. included the jail in a heralded voter registration march two years later. •The Biloxi office of Dr. Gilbert Mason Sr. who was a principal organizer of “wade-ins” beginning in 1959 to desegregate Biloxi’s public beaches. He also helped organize voter registration drives and led other civil rights initiatives for 33 years.

This is old news for anyone wanting attend the meetings.

I saw this link when reading this;
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/06/us/em...rnd/index.html

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A sign memorializing Emmett Till, who was brutally murdered 63 years ago, has been vandalized -- again. It's the third sign to go up at the site outside Glendora, Mississippi, near where the 14-year-old's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955. And it was installed just 35 days before it was pierced with bullets. The people who put it up might just leave it that way. Patrick Weems, co-founder of the county-supported Emmett Till Interpretive Center, said the community has ignored Emmett's vicious murder long enough. "For 50 years, our community lived in silence, and there's those who want to erase history," he told CNN. "We've been through that." The first sign went up along the river in 2007, 52 years after Emmett's death. In 2008, it was stolen, Weems said. Nobody ever found it. Eight years later, its replacement was riddled with bullet holes in multiple acts of vandalism, Weems said. That sign now sits in the interpretive center's museum.

The racist SOB's attitude towards Emmett Till's death is that the kid "just can't stay dead" and it pisses them off to no end.

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Part of moving forward, Weems said, involves protecting Emmett's history. For one, the National Park Service is considering designating sites related to Till's lynching as national park areas. With this designation, defacing the signs would become a federal felony, and federal funds could buy cameras to keep a watchful eye on the sites.

This might result in catching those who are shooting up the signs, or at least put a stop to it.

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