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Emmett Till memorial to include family of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown
By Angie Leventis Lourgos
Chicago Tribune
AUGUST 27, 2015, 12:45 PM
The parents of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown plan to take part this weekend in the 60th anniversary memorial of the murder of Emmett Till.
On Aug. 28, 1955, Till was beaten and shot for reportedly whistling at a white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi. The body of the black 14-year-old from Chicago was discovered days later in the Tallahatchie River. The accused killers were later acquitted by an all-white jury.
They chose a public memorial rather than a private ceremony at the cemetery "because of the climate of murder, the climate of injustice, in the present time," said Airickca Gordon-Taylor, Till's cousin and co-founder of the foundation.
Participants are expected to include the mother of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager fatally shot in 2012 in Sanford, Fla., by George Zimmerman, who claimed self-defense and was found not guilty of murder; the father of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager fatally shot in August 2014 in Ferguson, Mo., by a white police officer who was not indicted in connection with the shooting; and the mother of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed immigrant from Guinea who was shot 41 times in 1999 by four plainclothes New York City police officers who were acquitted of all charges in his death, though his family later received a $3 million settlement in a civil lawsuit.