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The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Blood of Emmett Till about?
This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" ( The Atlantic ). * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award * An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of the Year * 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 "the Emmett Till generation" launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till's lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history. But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of
Who reads The Blood of Emmett Till?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Timothy B. Tyson
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781476714844
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (1,432 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14