Emmett Till
The decision comes despite recent revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and the 87-year-old Carolyn Bryant Donham's unpublished memoir.
Emmett Till's Chicago home is one of more than two dozen historically significant sites that will share $3 million in grant money from a preservation organization.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Till of improper advances, wrote in an unpublished memoir that she didn't want him murdered.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, who was at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi, denies wanting him killed.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The unserved 1955 warrant would have charged a white woman for kidnapping Emmett Till.
The arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham was discovered last week and Till's family wants her to be charged nearly 70 years later.
Relatives of Emmett Till have been stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into his lynching in Mississippi in 1955.
Lawmakers have tried to pass nearly 200 anti-lynching bills since 1918. The new law makes using the "weapon of racial terror" a federal hate crime.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) issued fierce criticisms of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kent.), who held up passage of an anti-lynching bill he previously voted to pass.
Till's relatives want authorities to prosecute a white woman at the center of the case from the very beginning.