The damaged side of the Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Bryant’s Grocery in Money, Miss., on June 26. Commonwealth, via AP)In October, a Mississippi historical marker for Emmett Till was riddled with bullet holes in an act of vandalism. Mississippi civil rights markers are often the targets of racist vandalism, the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson reported in October:After Emmett Till Memorial Highway was dedicated along a 32-mile stretch of U.S. 49 East in 2006, vandals painted “KKK” on the Emmett Till highway sign. After the Mississippi historical marker recognizing the Ku Klux Klan’s 1964 killings of three civil rights workers — James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner — was unveiled in 2009, it became a repeated target, too. “These are easy targets, a low-risk outlet for racism,” Dave Tell, an associate professor at the University of Kansas who is part of the Emmett Till Memory Project, told the Clarion-Ledger in October.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2017 00:20 UTC