The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson.

Part detective story, part political history, Timothy Tyson's The Blood of Emmett Till revises the history of the Till case, not only changing the specifics that we thought we knew, but showing how the murder ignited the modern civil rights movement. Tyson uses a wide range of new sources, including...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyson, Timothy B. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Crimes against.
Hate crimes.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Racism.
Trials (Murder)
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Sumner.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.