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.
year: 2004
call number/section: 364.15, 364.1, 305.8
subjects: till, emmett, 1941-1955, death and burial, african americans, crimes against, mississippi, lynching, trials (murder), history, video recordings for the hearing impaired, homicide, mississippi, race relations