Emmett Till
Subtitle: the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement
By: Devery S. Anderson ; foreword by Julian Bond
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9781496802842
Subjects: Lynching; Race relations; Trials (Murder); Racism; Crimes against; African Americans; Hate crimes; History
Other titles: Emmett Till, the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement
Description: "Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. His death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history, the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change."--Publisher information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-527) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. In black and white : Mother and son ; Mississippi welcomes Emmett Till ; Murder heard round the world ; Countdown ; Tallahatchie trial, Part 1 ; Tallahatchie trial, Part 2 ; Protests, rumors, and revelations ; Clamor, conflict, and another jury ; The Look story and its aftermath ; Never the same; title: pt. 2. In living color : Revival ; Seeking justice in a new era ; The legacy of Emmett Till; title: Epilogue: Seeing clearly; title: Appendix: Piecing the puzzle.