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On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till Was Abducted From His Great-uncle's Cabin In Money, Mississippi, And Killed. With A Collection Of More Than 100 Documents, Metress Retells Till's Story In A Unique And Daring Way--juxtaposing News Accounts And Investigative Journalism With Memoirs, Poetry, And Fiction. 1. Discovery And Indictment. Two White Men Charged With Kidnaping Negro / Delta Democrat-times ; Parents And Relatives Keep Silent In Case Of Boy Charged With Ugly Remarks To Storekeeper's Wife / Jackson Advocate ; Muddy River Gives Up Body Of Brutally Slain Negro Boy / Memphis Commercial Appeal ; Designed To Inflame / Jackson Daily News ; Mississippi Notebook : Our State A Target For Hate Campaign / Tom Ethridge, Jackson Daily News ; Lynch-murder Aids Enemies Of The South / Atlanta Constitution ; Blood On Their Hands / Chicago Defender ; End The Racist Conspiracy! / Daily Worker ; Meddling In Local Case Creates Problems / Greenwood Morning Star ; Mother's Tears Greet Son Who Died A Martyr / Mattie Smith Colin, Chicago Defender ; Mother Waits In Vain For Her Bo / Mattie Smith Colin And Robert Elliott, Chicago Defender ; 50,000 Mourn At Bier Of Lynched Negro Child / Carl Hir

Author

Christopher Metress

Publisher

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813921211

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities

Rating

4.23 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14