Format:
Book
Author:
Tyson, Timothy B., author.
Title:
The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson.
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Description:
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. The national coalition organized to protest the Till lynching became the foundation of the modern civil rights movement. Five years later, the Emmett Till generation, forever marked by the vicious killing of a boy their own age, launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle into a mass movement.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index.
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.
LCCN:
2016021595
ISBN:
9781476714844 (hardcover)
1476714843 (hardcover)
Other Number:
949922865
System Availability:
45
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3486250
Call Number:
364.1/34
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
40