After years of debate, a new statue will be erected in Greenwood—one of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old brutally beaten and shot in 1955 by white men 10 miles from the city.
Martha Raddatz takes a closer look at the military's renaming of bases named for Confederate generals.GREENWOOD, Miss. -- For more than a century, one of Mississippi's most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at the courthouse in the center of Greenwood, a Black-majority city with a history of civil rights protests and clashes.
Across Mississippi, multiple places have voted to remove monuments; the few that have followed through found it costly, with a $1 million bill at the University of Mississippi. In Charlottesville, Virginia, a Gen. Robert E. Lee figure was recently carted away — nearly four years after a deadly, racist rally there. Dozens of Confederate statues fell nationwide during the 2020 protests sparked by George Floyd's death — many in liberal-leaning urban centers.
But community members pushed for removal. The Black board members voted 4-0 to remove the statue. The lone white member didn't attend the meeting. He told the local newspaper he'd have voted to keep the statue. In April, Democratic state Sen. David Jordan of Greenwood reignited a conversation about a Till statue in the city of 13,500. He’s one of the last people alive locally who attended the trial for Till's killers.
Sen. Jordan said it'd be poetic justice to erect the Till statue in front of the courthouse — where dogs were set on Black residents trying to register to vote, in a city where racist Citizens' Councils maintained regional headquarters.But the board wouldn't budge. Collins said in April that allowing the Till statue at the courthouse would be a “double standard.”
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