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,"--NoveList.
| Main Author: | Tyson, Timothy B. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Simon & Schuster,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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.