Until, 14, was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white lady. His mom, Mamie Until-Mobley, insisted on having an open casket so mourners might see how badly he had been overwhelmed.
Hundreds of poeple lined as much as pay their respects at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. It was a key chapter within the Civil Rights motion.
The Solar-n-Sand Motor Lodge in Jackson, Mississippi; the Nationwide Negro Opera Firm Home in Pittsburgh; Rassawek, the historic capital of the Monacan Indian Nation in Columbia, Virginia; and Ponce Historic Zone in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are a number of the different locations which were added to the record of Endangered Historic Locations.