A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.
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call number/section: 920
subjects: till, emmett, 1941-1955, till-mobley, mamie, 1921-2003, lynching, mississippi, history, 20th century, african americans, crimes against, racism, trials (murder), sumner, hate crimes, united states, history, 20th century, mississippi, race relations