Getting Away with Murder The True Story of the Emmett till Case

Name: Getting Away with Murder The True Story of the Emmett till Case
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ISBN: 9780803728042

ISBN-10: 0803728042

ISBN-13: 9780803728042

Edition: 2003

Authors: Chris Crowe

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The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. Likely showing off to friends, Emmett allegedly whistled at a white woman. Three days later his brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. The extreme violence of the crime put a national spotlight on the Jim Crow ways of the South, and many Americans-Black and white-were further outraged at the speedy trial of the white murderers. Although the two white men were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury, they later bragged publicly…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 5/26/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

CHRIS CROWE, a professor of English at Brigham Young University, has published award-winning fiction and nonfiction for teenagers, poetry, essays, books, and many articles for academic and popular magazines. He is a popular speaker and writer in librarian and teacher circles. He lives with his wife in Provo, Utah.