Let the people see : the story of Emmett Till / Elliott J. Gorn.

"While visiting family in Mississippi in August 1955, Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman working behind the counter of a crossroads country store. Her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped the fourteen-year-old Chicago kid in the middle of the night and tortured, beat, and shot him. Thre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gorn, Elliott J., 1951- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
Till-Mobley, Mamie, > 1921-2003.
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.
African Americans > Crimes against.
Hate crimes.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Racism.
Trials (Murder)
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Sumner.
United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Story of Emmett Till
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I seen two knees and feet
  • Argo, Illinois
  • Money, Mississippi
  • I'm kinda scared there's been foul play
  • Lynching
  • We will not be integrated
  • Let the people see what they did to my boy
  • Mississippi's infamy
  • Trial
  • A good place to raise a boy
  • The news capitol of the United States
  • Fair and impartial men
  • Moses Wright
  • Undertaker Chester Miller
  • Sheriff George Smith and deputy John Ed Cothran
  • Mamie Till Bradley
  • An interracial manhunt
  • Willie Reed
  • Carolyn Bryant
  • Sheriff Clarence Strider
  • Doctor L. B. Otken and undertaker H. D. Malone
  • Your forefathers will turn over in their graves
  • I'm real happy at the result
  • The soul of America
  • Each of you own a little bit of Emmett
  • A propaganda victory for international communism
  • Louis Till
  • Evil such as the Till case are the result of a system
  • As far as I know, the case is closed
  • We call upon the president of the United States
  • This is a war in Mississippi
  • Few talk about the Till case
  • The time had come. I could feel it. I could see it.
  • We've known his story forever
  • A whistle or a wink.