Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement

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 ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Devery S. (Author)
Other Authors: Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Series:Race, Rhetoric, and Media.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
Till-Mobley, Mamie, > 1921-2003.
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955
Till-Mobley, Mamie, > 1921-2003
1900-1999
Lynching > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi.
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > Mississippi > Sumner.
Hate crimes > Mississippi.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
African Americans > Crimes against
Hate crimes
Lynching
Race relations
Racism
Trials (Murder)
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations.
Mississippi
Mississippi > Sumner
United States
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:"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 acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history, the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change."--Publisher information
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 552 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781496802859
1496802853
9781496802897
1496802896
9781496802880
1496802888
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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