Historical marker honoring Emmett Till riddled with bullet holes
Another historical sign marking the spot where Emmett Till's body was found in Mississippi on Aug. 31, 1955 had been previously shot. (Emmett Till Interpretive Center)
(FoxNews.com) - A historical marker placed at the site where Emmett Till's body was found in a Mississippi river has been riddled with dozens of bullet holes, activists say.
Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago, was visiting relatives in the South when he was kidnapped and lynched for whistling at a white woman on Aug. 28, 1955. his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River three days later.
Two half-brothers were acquitted of the killing by an all-white jury, but confessed in a magazine interview months later. The case is now considered to be a galvanizing moment in the civil rights movement.
A photo of the vandalized marker was posted on Facebook last week by Kevin Wilson Jr.
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