They had to install a bulletproof sign to remember Emmett Till on the banks of the Tallahatchie River. The first sign, paid for by Morgan Freeman, was stolen and thrown in the river six months after being erected. The second sign got shot 317 times in eight years, so riddled with bullets that the Smithsonian has approached Weems about displaying it. The third sign made it thirty-five days before it allegedly got shot by three Ole Miss frat boys. The ETIC launched what it called the Emmett Till Memory Project. A tug-of-war emerged, each side acting in the shadows, with some people trying to
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