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The Event That Launched The Civil Rights Movement- The 1955 Lynching Of Young Emmett Till- Now Reexamined By An Award-winning Author With Access To Never-before-heard Accounts From Those Involved As Well As Recently Recovered Court Transcripts From The Trial. In 1955, A Fourteen-year-old Black Boy Named Emmett Till, Who Had Come Down From Chicago To Visit Relatives In Mississippi, Was Murdered By A Group Of White Men. He Had Gone Into A Small Country Store A Few Days Earlier And Made Flirtatious Remarks To A White Woman, Twenty-one-year-old Carolyn Bryant; Bryant's Husband And Brother-in-law Were Two Of Till's Attackers. They Were Never Convicted, But Till's Lynching Became One Of The Most Notorious Hate Crimes In American History. It Set Off A Wave Of Protests Across The Country, Helped The Naacp Gain Thousands Of Members, And Inspired Famous Activists Like Rosa Parks To Stand Up And Fight For Equal Rights For The First Time. Part Detective Story, Part Political History, Timothy Tyson's The Blood Of Emmett Till Revises The History Of The Till Case, Not Only Changing The Specifics That We Thought We Knew, But Showing How The Murder Ignited The Modern Civil Rights Movement. Tyson Us

Who reads The Blood of Emmett Till?

Author

Tyson, Timothy B.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476714851

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Social Science, History, True Crime

Rating

4.15 / 5 (1,432 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14