Patrick Weems, Executive Director of the Emmett till memorial Commission, says the new marker was dedicated Saturday.

Members of till’s family, including a cousin who was there the night Before was kidnapped, attended a ceremony at the site where the teen’s body was recovered from the Tallahatchee river.

This is the fourth historical marker on the site. The previous ones were targeted by vandals.

The first historical marker was installed in 2008. Someone threw it in the river. The second and third signs were shelled and left riddled with bullet holes.

This image from the Emmett till Interpretive center shows a destroyed historic marker in Tallahatchee County, Mississippi.

Emmett till interpretive center

The new 500-pound steel sign has a glass bulletproof front, Weems said.

Weems said the markers were placed as an attempt to acknowledge the truth about what happened there and hopefully spark “new conversations.”

“For 50 years, no one has talked about Emmett till,” Weems said.

“I think we just have to be resilient and know There are people out there who don’t want to know the story or who want to erase the story. We’ll just be steady in continuing to put them back and be truthful in ensuring that Emmett doesn’t die in vain.”

The Federal government is still investigating till’s brutal murder.

The investigation was reopened two years after the book indicated that a key witness had lied. “Emmett till’s blood,” by Timothy B. Tyson, cites a white woman, Carolyn Donham, as admitting during a 2008 interview that she was not truthful when she testified that till grabbed her, whistled and made sexual advances in a store in 1955.

Two white men? Donham’s then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam? were charged with murder but acquitted of killing till, who was living with relatives in Northern Mississippi at the time. The men later confessed to the crime in a magazine interview, but were not re-convicted. Both are now dead.