Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.
year: 2003, 2005
call number/section: 364.15, 364.1
subjects: till, emmett, 1941-1955, death and burial, lynching, mississippi, hate crimes, african american youth, crimes against, racism, trials (murder), mississippi, race relations, offenses against the person, trials (homicide)
Editions
Till-Mobley, Mamie
Random House (2003)
Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.
Schools: 2
Till-Mobley, Mamie
One World/Ballantine Books (2005)
Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.
Schools: 1