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EMMETT TILL
THE MURDER THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD AND PROPELLED THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT |
| By: |
Devery S. Anderson, Julian Bond (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£40.19 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1496802845 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781496802842 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI |
| Pub. date: |
18 August, 2015 |
| Series: |
Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
Offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till and its aftermath. It tells the story of Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. Incorporating much new information, the book demonstrates how the Emmett Till murder exemplifies the Jim Crow South at its nadir. |
| Synopsis: |
Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement 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.For six decades the Till story has continued to haunt the South as the lingering injustice of Till's murder and the aftermath altered many lives. Fifty years after the murder, renewed interest in the case led the Justice Department to open an investigation into identifying and possibly prosecuting accomplices of the two men originally tried. Between 2004 and 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the first real probe into the killing and turned up important information that had been lost for decades.This book will stand as the definitive work on Emmett Till for years to come. Incorporating much new information, the book demonstrates how the Emmett Till murder exemplifies the Jim Crow South at its nadir. The author accessed a wealth of new evidence. Anderson has made a dozen trips to Mississippi and Chicago to conduct research and interview witnesses and reporters who covered the trial. In Emmett Till Anderson corrects the historical record and presents this critical saga in its entirety. |
| Illustrations: |
35|35 black & white photographs |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of Mississippi |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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