08548cam a2200925 i 4500 bloodofemmetttil0000tyso CaSfIA 20250813192320.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 160511t20172017nyu ob 001 0deng c 2016021595 9781476714844 (hardcover) 1476714843 (hardcover) 9781476714851 (paperback) 1476714851 (paperback) (OCoLC)949923051 NcU/DLC eng rda NOC DLC OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO BDX YDXCP BTCTA OCLCQ WIM QX9 FM0 IK2 ON8 YDX OCLCO VAX KLP IGA IDU TXDRI TXMAL OCLCQ GTA XXWGB T3S TXKYL MVC JOZ NFR ZP7 TXTLL TXGON OCLCQ SFR CaSfIA pcc n-us-ms n-us--- HV6465.M7 T97 2017 364.1/34 23 Tyson, Timothy B., author. The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (x, 291 pages) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Various printings. Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index. Nothing that boy did -- Boots on the porch -- Growing up black in Chicago -- Emmett in Chicago and "Little Mississippi" -- Pistol-whipping at Christmas -- The incident -- On the third day -- Mama made the earth tremble -- Warring regiments of Mississippi -- Black Monday -- People we don't need around here any more -- Fixed opinions -- Mississippi underground -- "There he is" -- Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you -- The verdict of the world -- Protest politics -- Killing Emmett Till -- Epilogue: the children of Emmett Till. 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 uses a wide range of new sources, including the only interview ever given by Carolyn Bryant; the transcript of the murder trial, missing since 1955 and only recovered in 2005; and a recent FBI report on the case. In a time where discussions of race are once again coming to the fore, The Blood of Emmett Till redefines a crucial moment in civil rights history. -- Publisher description. Till, Emmett, 1941-1955. Lynching Mississippi History 20th century. African Americans Crimes against Mississippi. Racism Mississippi History 20th century. Trials (Murder) Mississippi Sumner. Hate crimes Mississippi. Hate crimes Mississippi. United States Race relations History 20th century. Mississippi Race relations. Online version: Tyson, Timothy B. Blood of Emmett Till. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017] 9781476714868 (DLC) 2016023098 (OCoLC)949923051 https://archive.org/details/bloodofemmetttil0000tyso Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL27226287M Additional information and access via Open Library bloodofemmetttil0000tyso ark:/13960/s2brkj9bbgm