Teens Plaster Vandalized Emmett Till Marker With Words Of Hope [View all]

“You can destroy this marker, but you cannot destroy history.”

The sign, which has been defaced before, was scraped so badly that information and photos about Till’s brutal death have been obliterated.


Cultural Leadership
The vandalized sign.

Students from Cultural Leadership, a St. Louis-based nonprofit that teaches young adults how to become civil rights leaders, were present at the site after the sign was vandalized and were disheartened by the destruction.

Dani Gottlieb, a 16-year-old from Cultural Leadership, told HuffPost that she was expecting to see “flowers growing in Emmett Till’s honor” at the landmark, “not a torn-down marker.”



She and her peers decided as a group to take action. They covered the scraped-off information with hand-drawn pictures of Till, messages of hope and information about his killing. 





More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teens-recreate-vandalized-emmett-till-sign_us_59516c39e4b0da2c731dc352?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

Thank you to the teens that did what they could to correct this wrong and say no to racist hate.