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Writer's pictureDave Harmon, PW editor

Childhood home of lynching victim Emmett Till takes first step toward historic landmark status

Emmett Till’s home on the South Side was granted preliminary landmark status Thursday — on the same date that the teen’s historic open-casket funeral was held 65 years ago.


The Commission on Chicago Landmarks voted unanimously to give the prestigious status to the home at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Ave., where Till lived before that fateful trip down South ending with his brutal lynching on Aug. 28, 1955.


https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/9/3/21420388/emmett-till-childhood-home-chicago-landmark

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