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<\/a><\/p>\nMembers of the First Family at the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley Exhibit within the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum<\/p>\n
\u201cOn a sweltering day last April in Jackson, Mississippi, I had the gift of time \u2013 and the gift of company \u2013 to visit the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum with the Mayor of Jackson and his family. With my children by my side, we witnessed the horrors of Emmett Till\u2019s lynching and learned of the legacy Emmett continues to leave.<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing would prepare me for the faces of my children as we walked through the exhibit: passing images of Emmett\u2019s horrific mutilation, photographs of his mother weeping over his unrecognizable body, and seeing the bullet-ridden sign that once stood to mark where his body was found.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs my 7, 10, 12, and 13-year-olds learned about what happened to 14-year-old Emmett, I learned why every child must learn this history, too. Children like mine will never have to experience the depths of dehumanization and racial violence that Emmett, his family, and Black Americans continue to experience today.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are too many leaders in our country right now who want to brush this \u2014 and so many other horrific pieces of our history \u2014 under the rug. They lead an ideological crusade to silence our diverse communities and whitewash the truth. President Biden\u2019s establishment of this national monument is an important step toward healing and a visual reminder to us all that we cannot turn our backs and deny or rewrite our past.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur nation must fully understand the impacts of our history on the present day to be able to heal and progress. Today is a step toward that. The truth stands tall \u2014 just as the life and legacy of Emmett Till always will.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom issued the following statement in response to President Biden\u2019s executive action to designate a national monument at three sites in honor of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley \u2014 both of whom served as catalysts for the Civil Rights Movement: Members of the First Family at the Emmett Till & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Emmett-Till-exhibit-photo.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164337,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164335\/revisions\/164337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}