In an unanimous vote, the House passed a bill to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the Associated Press reports.

FILE – This undated portrait shows Emmett Louis Till, who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Mississippi Delta in August 1955 after witnesses said he whistled at a white woman working in a store. The House has unanimously passed a bill posthumously awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till, the Chicago teenager murdered by white supremacists in the 1950s, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. The bill is meant to honor Till and his mother with the highest civilian honor that Congress awards. (AP Photo/File)

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In an unanimous vote, the House passed a bill to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, the Associated Press reports. The National Museum of African American History will receive the medal and display it near Till’s casket.

FILE – Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference about the “Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act” on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Feb. 26, 2020. Emmett Till, pictured at right, was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family’s grocery store. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

In 1955, Emmett, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was visiting relatives in Mississippi. The then-Carolyn Bryant, a white woman, accused Emmett of whistling and making sexual advances toward her. An all white jury acquitted the men of murder charges, but they later confessed in Look magazine.. Till-Mobley, who died in 2003, insisted on an open casket so the world could see her son’s brutalized body. The photos would help to spark the civil rights movement.