The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson.
Tyson, Timothy B., author.
2017
HV6465.M7 T97 2017 (Mapit)
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Title The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson.
Author Tyson, Timothy B., author.
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781476714844 (hardcover)
1476714843 (hardcover)
9781476714851
1476714851
Published New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description x, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number HV6465.M7 T97 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.1/34
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. In 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy named Emmett Till, who had come down from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi, was murdered by a group of white men. He had gone into a small country store a few days earlier and made flirtatious remarks to a white woman, twenty-one-year-old Carolyn Bryant; Bryant's husband and brother-in-law were two of Till's attackers. They were never convicted, but Till's lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It set off a wave of protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of members, and inspired famous activists like Rosa Parks to stand up and fight for equal rights for the first time. 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 the only interview ever given by Carolyn Bryant; the transcript of the murder trial, missing since 1955 and only recovered in 2005; and a recent FBI report on the case. In a time where discussions of race are once again coming to the fore, The Blood of Emmett Till redefines a crucial moment in civil rights history. -- Publisher description
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.
Available in Other Form Blood of Emmett Till.
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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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