Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement /
"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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2015
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| Series: | Race, Rhetoric, and Media.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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 |
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| 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. |
