The Blood of Emmett Till

The Blood of Emmett Till

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movementâ€”the 1955 lynching of Emmett Tillâ€”â€œand demands that we do the one vital thing we arenâ€™t often enough asked to do with history: learn from itâ€ (The Atlantic).

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. 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, Black students who called themselves â€œthe Emmett Till generationâ€ launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Tillâ€™s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.

But what actually happened to Emmett Tillâ€”not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story, part political history, The Blood of Emmett Till â€œunfolds like a movieâ€ (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), drawing on a wealth of new evidence, including a shocking admission of Tillâ€™s innocence from the woman in whose name he was killed. â€œJolting and powerfulâ€ (The Washington Post), the book â€œprovides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutionsâ€ (Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author of Carry Me Home) and â€œcalls us to the cause of justice todayâ€ (Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2017-01-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476714844

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2017-01-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476714844

The Blood of Emmett Till

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