Fourteen years after Burr Oak Cemetery was raided as part of a grave-selling scheme, activists walked among the broken wooden posts littering the grounds Sunday morning to push for the final resting place of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till — and many others — to be given National Historic Landmark status.
Members of the Friends of Burr Oak Cemetery, a group founded by members of the public who attended the trials of the since-convicted cemetery workers, say Till’s grave is often submerged after storms.
