Title: Mississippi trial, 1955
First published: 2002
Description: Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager from Chicago, was unused to the mores of the segregated South. While visiting his uncle in the summer of 1955, he allegedly made flirtatious remarks to a white woman. A few days later Emmett was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Although the white murderers were tried and acquitted, they later bragged publicly about the crime.Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a gripping, fictionalized account of this infamous event, which prompted a national outcry at the time, and served as one of the triggers for the Civil Rights Movement. Told through the eyes of a white teenage boy, this book describes the boy's series of revelations about his family and other people of the town, and he forms a clearer view of the evils of racism, and the values he hopes to live up to.
Subjects: Race relations, Juvenile Fiction, Fathers and sons, Racism, Grandfathers, Fiction, African Americans, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Parent and child, fiction
Places: Mississippi
People: Emmett Till (1941-1955)
LC classification: PZ7.C8853845 Mi 2002