Chicago church that hosted Emmett Till’s funeral named among endangered historic U.S. sites
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“I could remember as if it was yesterday what his mother said: ‘I hope you did not die in vain.’ And that has stuck with me,” Parker said. “This effort that they’ve been doing is a reminder that Emmett Till speaks from the grave. By them putting this out on the national register, I think it’s a reminder, and she would be very happy to know that something is being done to depict what racism was like then.”
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