“I’ve been suffering for all these years of how they’ve portrayed him - I still deal with that,” Parker, 84, said of his cousin Emmett.
For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story
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Some wrongly thought Till got what he deserved for breaking the taboo of flirting with a White woman and many people didn't want to talk about the case for decades, Parker said.
Community with Confederate monument gets Emmett Till statue
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