Students From Prairie View A&M University Build Park Honoring Emmett Till

Till, a black teen from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi for the summer, was kidnapped and murdered reportedly because he whistled at a white married woman in a local store. Photographs of Till’s brutally beaten body were published in Jet magazine and, according to some historians, jump-started the civil rights movement.
Now a 20-acre park and nature trail named in honor of Till has opened in Glendora, Mississippi, a few miles north of where the murder occurred.
About 100 students from Prairie View A&M University in Texas volunteered their time this summer to build the nature trail and landscape the park. The university also contributed money to the project.