The Blood of Emmett Till
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: x, 291 pages ; 25 cm
"The event that launched the civil rights movement--the 1955 lynching of young Emmett Till--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, "--NoveList.
Contents:
Nothing that boy did -- Boots on the porch -- Growing up black in Chicago -- Emmett in Chicago and "Little Mississippi" -- Pistol-whipping at Christmas -- The incident -- On the third day -- Mama made the earth tremble -- Warring regiments of Mississippi -- Black Monday -- People we don't need around here any more -- Fixed opinions -- Mississippi underground -- "There he is" -- Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you -- The verdict of the world -- Protest politics -- Killing Emmett Till -- Epilogue: the children of Emmett Till.
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.
Hate crimes -- Mississippi -- Juvenile literature.
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.
Hate crimes -- Mississippi -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781476714844
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.