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The blood of Emmett Till, Timothy B. Tyson

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The blood of Emmett Till

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Timothy B. Tyson

In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a visiting fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. The national coalition organized to protest the Till lynching became the foundation of the modern civil rights movement. But what actually happened to Emmett Till? Not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story, part political history, Tyson's The Blood of Emmett Till revises the history of the Till case using 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

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