President to sign proclamation on Tuesday for monument across three sites honoring Black teen who was lynched in 1955

Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday.

The president will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley national monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official. The individual spoke on condition of anonymity because the White House had not formally announced the president’s plans.