A sign memorializing 14-year-old Emmett Till, whose lynching death helped spark the civil rights movement, has been shot up for a second time

Emmett Till Interpretive Center

• A sign marking the spot where Emmett Till's body was pulled from a river in Mississippi after being lynched in 1955 has been defaced for a third time.
• The first sign installed by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in 2007 was thrown in the river, and the second was riddled with more than 40 bullets when it was installed in 2013.
• That torn up sign was replaced in June, but was shot up again just 35 days later. 
• The 14-year-old Till was beaten and shot to death after allegations of physically assaulting a white woman, who later recanted her story.
• His death was a huge national story at the time and helped spark the civil rights movement.

APA sign memorializing lynching victim Emmett Till has been shot up, a little more than a month after being replaced for a third time. 

The sign, marking the spot where the 14-year-old black child's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955, was first put up by the Emmett Till Interpretive Center in 2007. Six months later, that sign was stolen. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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