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Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement / Devery S. Anderson ; foreword by Julian Bond.

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"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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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]
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
Till-Mobley, Mamie, > 1921-2003.
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.
African Americans > Crimes against.
Hate crimes.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Racism.
Trials (Murder)
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Sumner.
United States.
History.

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Call Number: E185.61 .A63 2015
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