A cultural preservation organization announced that the house of Emmett Till's mother in Chicago 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.
Some of the grant money from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will go to rehabilitate buildings, such as a bank in Mississippi founded by a man described by Booker T. Washington as the “most influential business man in the United States,” the first Black masonic lodge in North Carolina, and a school in rural Oklahoma for the children of Black farm workers and laborers.
Till’s brutal slaying helped galvanize the civil rights movement. The Chicago home where Mamie Till Mobley and her son lived will receive funding for a project director to oversee restoration efforts, including renovating the second floor to what it looked like when the Tills lived there. It was a display that influenced thousands of mourners who filed by the casket and the millions more who saw the photographs in Jet Magazine — one of whom was Rosa Parks whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man about three months later remains one of the pivotal acts of defiance in American history.
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Emmett Till’s house, Black sites to get landmarks fundsThe African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced the grants on Tuesday.
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Emmett Till's Chicago home, Black historic sites to get landmark fundsEmmett Till's Chicago home is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share $3 million in money from a preservation group.
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Emmett Till's Chicago home, Black sites to get landmarks fundsA cultural preservation organization announced Tuesday that Emmett Till's Chicago 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.
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Emmett Till’s house, Black history sites to get preservation fundsEmmett Till's Chicago home is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share $3 million in grant money from a preservation organization. emmetttill blackhistory chicago kprc kprc2 click2houston
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Emmett Till’s Chicago home to get preservation fundsEmmett 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.
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