This Aug. 26, 2020, file photo shows the former home of Emmett and Mamie Till at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Ave. in the West Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago.
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Emmett Till’s house, Black sites to get landmark funds
Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman. A cultural preservation organization announced Tuesday that the house will receive a share of $3 million in grants being distributed to 33 sites and organizations nationwide that are important pieces of African-American history.
