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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Mississippi county OKs contracts for Emmett Till statue

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Mississippi county has approved contracts for a sculptor to make and install a bronze statue of Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 lynching became a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

Leflore County supervisors voted on the contracts Monday, about seven months after they initially agreed that the county would have a statue of Till, the Greenwood Commonwealth reported.

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