Emmett Till’s Home Gains Landmark Status

Preserving the truth of our difficult past is our collective job

Emmett and Mamie Till-Mobley’s former home at 6427 S. St. Lawrence Ave in Chicago. Photo: Charles Orlowek/Wikimedia Commons

Emmett Till’s childhood home is remarkable in its regularity. It’s a two story building on Chicago’s South Side—really more like Chicago’s South East Side, not too far from Lake Michigan. It’s brick, like most Chi-Town homes, and it is situated in a neighborhood that back in the day was…