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A few days full of trouble : revelations on the journey to justice for my cousin and best friend, Emmett Till  Cover Image Book Book

A few days full of trouble : revelations on the journey to justice for my cousin and best friend, Emmett Till

Summary: "In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new telling of the story of Emmett Till, relayed by his cousin and best friend--the Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr., a survivor of the night of terror when 14-year-old Emmett was taken from his family's rural Mississippi Delta home in the dead of night"--

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  • ISBN: 9780593134269
  • ISBN: 0593134265
  • ISBN: 9780593134276
  • Physical Description: print
    xix, 391 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : One World, [2023]

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-380) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: White lies -- What is life? -- "What does justice look like?" -- "Investigate and legislate" -- Unreasonable doubt -- A place called slaughter -- Broken promises -- Law and order -- Tale of the tape -- Reading between the lies -- Alternative facts -- Monuments, memorials, memories -- House of mirrors -- Appropriation -- Ghost skins -- Reckoning with the consequences.
Subject: Till, Emmett 1941-1955
Lynching Mississippi History 20th century
African Americans Crimes against Mississippi History 20th century
Murder Investigation Mississippi History 20th century
Racism Mississippi History 20th century
Civil rights movement Civil rights movement History 20th century
HISTORY / African American & Black
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
African Americans Crimes against
Lynching
Murder Investigation
Racism
Mississippi
Genre: History.
True crime stories.

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