Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement / Devery S. Anderson ; foreword by Julian Bond.

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"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 acquitt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Devery S.
Language:English
Published: Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
Lynching > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi.
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > Mississippi > Sumner.
Hate crimes > Mississippi.
Till-Mobley, Mamie, > 1921-2003.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations.
African Americans > Crimes against.
Hate crimes.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Racism.
Trials (Murder)
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Sumner.
United States.
1900 - 1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxiii, 552 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Emmett Till, the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement.
Format: Book

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