Overview
- Officials said the barn outside Drew, Mississippi, will open as a sacred memorial ahead of the 75th anniversary of Till’s 1955 lynching.
- The center will implement 24-hour surveillance with floodlights and security cameras as precautionary measures against vandalism.
- A riverside marker where Till’s body was found has been replaced multiple times after theft and gunfire and is now bulletproof, according to the center.
- A 2021 Justice Department report concluded at least one additional, unnamed person took part in Till’s abduction beyond the two men who later confessed.
- The announcement was made Sunday on what would have been Mamie Till-Mobley’s 104th birthday.