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Community with Confederate monument gets Emmett Till statue

FILE - A Confederate memorial sits on the lawn of the Leflore County Courthouse in Greenwood, Miss., July 14, 2021. It is a short drive from where a statue of Emmett Till is being dedicated on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, at a park in Greenwood. Till, a Black 14-year-old from Chicago, was kidnapped, tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in a store. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - This undated portrait shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman working in a store. A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument will unveil a larger-than-life statue of Till on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for whistling the white woman. (AP Photo/File) FILE - Democratic Mississippi state Sen. David Jordan speaks on July 14, 2021, about a proposed Emmett Till statue in Rail Spike Park in Greenwood, Miss. Till, a Black 14-year-old from Chicago, was kidnapped, tortured and killed in Mississippi in 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman at a store. The statue of Till, before he was harmed, is being dedicated on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, in Greenwood. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE - This undated portrait shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman working in a store. A Mississippi community with an elaborate Confederate monument will unveil a larger-than-life statue of Till on Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, decades after white men kidnapped and killed the Black teenager for whistling the white woman. (AP Photo/File)