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The Emmett Till Book

The Emmett Till Book

2nd ed.

Paperback (20 Jul 2005)

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Publisher's Synopsis

What happened to cause a young African American student's lynching in the Mississippi Delta? When Emmett "BoBo" Till threatened Mississippi's rigid Jim Crow laws this fourteen-year-old paid with his life. Till's murderers were set free yet his death spurred Rosa Parks to take her important stand in Montgomery. In this 50th anniversary, the case has finally been reopened with new and intriguing information. How many people were involved? Who hid the killers overnight? Where is the first trial's transcript? Learn new facts on this and other Delta murders - Clinton Melton and his wife (1955)- he was shot, she was drowned; Jo Etha Collier(1955), gunned down on graduation night; attorney Cleve McDowell (1997), shot to death by a client? The Emmett Till Book gives readers a unique look at Mississippi's secret government agencies and its private white Citizens Councils that spied and did harm to those who fought segregation.

Book information

ISBN: 9781411638433
Publisher: Lulu Press
Imprint: Lulu.com
Pub date:
Edition: 2nd ed.
DEWEY: 364.134
Language: English
Number of pages: 164
Weight: 420g
Height: 279mm
Width: 208mm
Spine width: 14mm