A Time To Kill
In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: murder, trials (murder) [X], race relations, legal stories, homicide [X], mississippi [X], trials (homicide)
The Murder Of Emmett Till
Examines the death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago murdered by two white men in August 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store, and discusses the killing's impact as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
364.15
year: 2004
copies: 5
call number/section: 364.15
lexile:
subjects: till, emmett, african americans, lynching, trials (murder) [X], video recordings for the hearing impaired, homicide [X], mississippi [X]
A Time To Kill
In southern Mississippi, an African-American father kills the two white men who raped and beat his ten-year-old daughter, and a pair of idealistic but inexperienced young lawyers take the case only to find themselves targets of hatred and bigotry in a racist community.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, trials (murder) [X], video recordings for the hearing impaired, homicide [X], trials (homicide), mississippi [X]
A Time For Mercy
"Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, trials (murder) [X], legal stories, homicide [X], trials (homicide), mississippi [X], legal fiction (literature)