Emmett Till National Monument Could Lose Designation Due To DOJ Opinion

Emmett Till National Monument Could Lose Designation Due To DOJ Opinion

Source: Scott Olson / Getty Last week, the Department of Justice issued a legal opinion reversing nearly 100 years of legal precedent by allowing the president to revoke national monument designations if he feels the protection isn’t warranted. There’s growing concern among activists and former national parks officials that this ruling, along with proposed budget cuts and an executive order targeting “improper ideology” in national parks and mus…

'MAGA Is Lynching Emmett Till Again': Trump Administration Moves to Strip Protections from Monuments Honoring Teen Whose Murder 'Sparked Modern Civil Rights Movement'

At Graball Landing along the Tallahatchie River near Glendora, Mississippi, where Emmett Till‘s badly beaten corpse was found 70 years ago, there have been multiple attempts to erect a monument in memory of that horrific moment in time that would change America forever. As author Wright Thompson chronicles in his novel The Barn, the first sign, paid for by Morgan Freeman, was stolen and thrown into the river six months after it was erected. Its …