The Lynching of Emmett Till Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : University of Virginia Press
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Mississippi and killed. With a collection of more than 100 documents, Metress retells Till's story in a unique and

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 34,7 Mb
• Release Date : 31 January 2017

Draws on firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement.

• Publisher : Race, Rhetoric, and Media
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 29 August 2017

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 53,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 February 2021

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you’ll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most

• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• File Size : 21,9 Mb
• Release Date : 12 January 2009

A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin. In 1955 people all over the United States

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 October 2018

The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of

• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 18 September 2009

Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 26 May 2003

Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. The kidnapping

• Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
• File Size : 40,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

In August, 1955 the body of Emmett Till was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. His mother Mamie, was determined that his death should not go unnoticed, and due to her

• Publisher : Lulu.com
• File Size : 30,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 July 2005

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.