The Blood of Emmett Till
Waterville : Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Description: 527 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
In a time when discussions of race are once again coming to the fore, the event that launched the civil rights movement -- the 1955 lynching of a fourteen-year-old black boy named Emmett Till -- is now reexamined by an award-winning author with access to never-before-heard accounts from those involved as well as recently recovered court transcripts from the trial.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Sumner.
Hate crimes -- Mississippi.
Large type books.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Sumner.
Hate crimes -- Mississippi.
Large type books.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781410497802
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Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017].