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National monument dedicated to Emmett Till amid debate over how to teach race and history

A new national monument dedicated to the murdered teenager Emmett Till and his mother honors three sites critical to Till’s story, and central to the birth of America’s civil rights movement. The announcement comes in the middle of a heated debate over how best to teach children about race and American history. Laura Barrón-López reports.

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