Biden creates a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 murder was a catalyst for the civil-rights movement

• President Biden created a national monument in honor of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
• Till's murder in Mississippi helped spark the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
• The monument locations will consist of a site in Chicago and two sites in rural Mississippi.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday established a national monument in honor of Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 kidnapping and murder in Mississippi was a defining spark in the emerging civil-rights movement.

Biden made the announcement on what would have been Till's 82nd birthday.