Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement
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Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement
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The work Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement
- Title remainder
- the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement
- Statement of responsibility
- Devery S. Anderson ; foreword by Julian Bond
- Title variation
- Emmett Till, the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement
- Subject
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- Hate crimes -- Mississippi
- History
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi
- Till-Mobley, Mamie, 1921-2003
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi | Sumner
- United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. His death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history, the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change"--
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- provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 364.1/34
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6465.M7
- LC item number
- A63 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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