The Blood of Emmett Till
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.In 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy...
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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.In 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy named Emmett Till, who had come down from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississ
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781476714844 (1476714843)
ASIN: 1476714843
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy Tyson "How do you give a crash course in hatred to a boy who has only known love?" -- Mamie Till, mother of Emmett Till Emmett Till. The boy whose lynching galvanized a global movement. Right now, the media seems to be afire with one of the revelations of this...
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