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Simon & Schuster
February 2017
On Sale: January 31, 2017
304 pages
ISBN: 1476714843
EAN: 9781476714844
Kindle: B01HMXV1M8
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Non-Fiction Biography
In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, “How
many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!”
Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy
murdered six decades before? 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. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young
Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in
Montgomery, Alabama. 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. “I can hear the blood of
Emmett Till as it calls from the ground,” shouted a black
preacher in Albany, Georgia. But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of
injustice but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story,
part political history, Timothy Tyson’s The Blood of Emmett
Till draws on a wealth of new evidence, including the only
interview ever given by Carolyn Bryant, the white woman in
whose name Till was killed. Tyson’s gripping narrative
upends what we thought we knew about the most notorious
racial crime in American history.
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