The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has acquired the Drew, Mississippi barn where the civil rights icon was tortured and killed in 1955.

Officials with the organization dedicated to is committed to accurately portraying the history and legacy of Till’s death announced that the acquisition was made possible through the “generosity of The Rhimes Foundation,” ensuring that a significant historic site in American history will be permanently protected. The Rhimes Foundation was started by popular television producer and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes.

The announcement was made on Sunday, which would have been the 104th birthday of Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett’s mother, whose decision to let the world see 14-year-old her son’s brutalized body via an open casket transformed a Mississippi lynching into

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