Emmett Till’s house, Black sites to get preservation funds

Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago's South Side, left his mother's home to visit family in Mississippi in

1955. He was allegedly whistling at a woman white and was brutally murdered. Tuesday's announcement by a cultural

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preservation organization said that the house would receive $3 million in grants to 33 organizations and sites across

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the country that are significant pieces of African American history. A portion of the African American Cultural Heritage

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Action Fund grant money will be used to renovate buildings such as a bank in Mississippi, founded by Booker T.

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Washington, the first Black masonic Lodge in North Carolina, as well as a school in rural Oklahoma that educates

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Black farm workers and laborers. The money will also be used to restore the Virginia home of Althea Gibson, a tennis

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coach who helped transform Black athletes like Arthur Ashe into champions. It will also be used to rehabilitate Detroit's Blue Bird Inn

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