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Emmett Till marker in Mississippi toppled but not vandalized, according to sign's maker

An Emmett Till historical marker in Mississippi will be repaired after being knocked off the pole that supports it.
Credit: AP
A Mississippi Freedom Trail marker sits before the remains of Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Miss., July 14, 2021, where in 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American teen, was accused of whistling at a white woman, at the family's store. Till was later kidnapped, beaten and killed. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

JACKSON, Miss — An Emmett Till historical marker in Mississippi will be repaired after being knocked off the pole that supports it. 

That's according to Allan Hammons, president of an advertising agency that made the sign. 

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center had tweeted out Thursday that the sign was missing after apparently being hit by a vehicle and removed.

A previous version of the metal sign was vandalized and another Till historical marker in the area was shot multiple times. 

Hammons told The Associated Press on Friday the sign was not defaced this time. 

Till was a Black teenager from Chicago who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman in a country store. 

His killing and an all-white jury's acquittal of two white men who later confessed became a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

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