Death in the Delta The Story of Emmett Till

Name: Death in the Delta The Story of Emmett Till
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ISBN: 9780801843266

ISBN-10: 080184326X

ISBN-13: 9780801843266

Edition: N/A

Authors: Stephen J. Whitfield

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In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till -- a fourteen-year-old black Chicago youth -- was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the river with a weight fastened around his neck with barbed wire, Till, an eighth-grader, was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The nation was horrified by Till's death. When the all-white, all-male jury hastily acquitted the two white defendants, the outcry reached a frenzied pitch -- spurring a fury that would prove critical in the mobilization of black resistance to white racism in the Deep South. In this sensitive inquiry, historian Stephen J. Whitfield probes Till's death;…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.17" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English