Memorial to teenage lynching victim Emmett Till is one of numerous monuments to U.S. civil rights figures or events grappling with security concerns in the wake of vandalism.
FILE - In this July 25, 2017 file photo, Rev. Willie Williams of Raleigh United Methodist Church in Sumner, Miss., prays during the rededication of the Emmett Till marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail at Money, Miss. Memorials to Holocaust victims and others dedicated to people of color across the U.S. repeatedly are vandalized, forcing volunteers, cities and universities to spend hundreds of thousands on repairs and security.
“It happens so much that I can’t get angry because I’m not surprised,” said Maria Varela, a Mississippi civil rights organizer and photographer with a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. “But this tells me the people who are doing this are still so scared.” “Without a doubt, those cameras have helped deter potential vandalism,” said Patrick Weems, executive director of the Emmett Till Memorial Commission.
Weems said memorial preservation and fundraising should be done with potential vandalism in mind. The new, donated sign cost around $10,000, he said. Plus, the commission has paid $1,000 for security cameras, and an estimated $250,000 is being spent on a smartphone app that will allow people to navigate sites related to Till’s killing and to report vandalism, he said.
Derek H. Alderman, a University of Tennessee geography professor, said such vandalism is “an attack on memory.”
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