num_pages: 144
description: The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. Likely showing off to friends, Emmett allegedly whistled at a white woman. Three days later his brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. The extreme violence of the crime put a national spotlight on the Jim Crow ways of the South, and many Americans-Black and white-were further outraged at the speedy trial of the white murderers.  Although the two white men were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury, they later bragged publicly about the crime. It was a galvanizing moment for Black leaders and ordinary citizens, including such activists as Rosa Parks.  In clear, vivid detail Chris Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath of the crime, as well as the dramatic court trial, and places it into the context of the nascent Civil Rights Movement.With lively narrative and abundantly illustrated with forty fascinating contemporaneous photographs, this impressive work of nonfiction brings fresh insight to the case in a manner that will be accessible and eye-opening for teenagers and adults alike. 
language: English
title: Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
titlecomplete: Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
characters: Emmett Till
genres: African American, Biography, Social Justice, True Crime, History, Crime, Race, Historical, Nonfiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2339
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Dial Books