Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement / Devery S. Anderson ; foreword by Julian Bond.
"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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Language: | English |
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Jackson, MS :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2015]
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Physical Description: | xxiii, 552 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Emmett Till, the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement. |
Format: | Book |