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The blood of Emmett Till
Author
Title
The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson.
ISBN
9781476714844
1476714843
9781476714851
1476714851
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Summary
"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.
Other formats
Online version: Tyson, Timothy B., author. Blood of Emmett Till. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.
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.
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