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Mississippi Trial 1955
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Author : Chris Crowe
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2002-05-27
Mississippi Trial 1955 written by Chris Crowe and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-27 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
As the fiftieth anniversary approaches, there's a renewed interest in this infamous 1955 murder case, which made a lasting mark on American culture, as well as the future Civil Rights Movement. Chris Crowe's IRA Award-winning novel and his gripping, photo-illustrated nonfiction work are currently the only books on the teenager's murder written for young adults.
Mississippi Trial 1955
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Author : Crowe Chris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Mississippi Trial 1955 written by Crowe Chris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with categories.
Star Crossed Lovers When Romiette Cappelle meets Julio Montague, she feels as though she has met the soul mate who can rescue her from her recurring nightmare about fire and water. But like the Shakespearean characters whose names echo theirs, Romiette an
Getting Away With Murder
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Author : Chris Crowe
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-01-09
Getting Away With Murder written by Chris Crowe and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Revised and updated with new information, this Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. The kidnapping and violent murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 was and is a uniquely American tragedy. Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi, when he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Three days later, his brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. In clear, vivid detail Chris Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath of Till's murder, as well as the dramatic trial and speedy acquittal of his white murderers, situating both in the context of the nascent Civil Rights Movement. Newly reissued with a new chapter of additional material--including recently uncovered details about Till's accuser's testimony--this book grants eye-opening insight to the legacy of Emmett Till.
Emmett Till And The Mississippi Press
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Author : Davis W. Houck
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-09-18
Emmett Till And The Mississippi Press written by Davis W. Houck and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-18 with Social Science categories.
Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder. Combing small-circulation weeklies as well as large-circulation dailies, Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy analyze the rhetoric at work as the state attempted to grapple with a brutal, small-town slaying. Initially, coverage tended to be sympathetic to Till, but when the case became a clarion call for civil rights and racial justice in Mississippi, journalists reacted. Newspapers both reported on the Till investigation and editorialized on its protagonists. Within days the Till case transcended the specifics of a murder in the Delta. Coverage wrestled with such complex cultural matters as the role of the press, class, gender, and geography in the determination of guilt and innocence. Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press provides a careful examination of the courtroom testimony given in Sumner, Mississippi, and the trial's conclusion as reported by the state's newspapers. The book closes with an analysis of how Mississippi has attempted to come to terms with its racially troubled past by, in part, memorializing Emmett Till in and around the Delta.
Thurgood Marshall
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Author : Chris Crowe
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-07-03
Thurgood Marshall written by Chris Crowe and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-03 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Thurgood Marshall changed American history by challenging it. In the first half of the twentieth century, African Americans were often treated as second-class citizens and subject to Jim Crow laws, which promoted both racism and segregation. This is the world that Marshall grew up in, and he became a lawyer to change it. As the head counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), he helped take the famous Brown v. Board of Education all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in an outcome surprising even to him, the court unanimously ruled to end segregation in schools. Thurgood Marshall had become a hero.
The Blood Of Emmett Till
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Author : Timothy B. Tyson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-01-31
The Blood Of Emmett Till written by Timothy B. Tyson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with History categories.
Draws on firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement.
Presenting Mildred D Taylor
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Author : Chris Crowe
language : en
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1999
Presenting Mildred D Taylor written by Chris Crowe and has been published by Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Here are the never-before told stories of Taylor's background, childhood, family history, and political experience as a member of the Black Studies program at the University of Colorado (which she helped to found) in the late 1960s. It is from these experiences that she takes her stories, and using the storytelling talents of her family, brings to life the characters that came alive in her own head when she was a child. As readers we benefit from the product of Taylor's life - her writing; now Presenting Mildred D. Taylor allows us to explore the process as well.
A Wreath For Emmett Till
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Author : Marilyn Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2009-01-12
A Wreath For Emmett Till written by Marilyn Nelson and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin. In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. In a profound and chilling poem, award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement.
Writing To Save A Life
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Author : John Edgar Wideman
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Writing To Save A Life written by John Edgar Wideman and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade earlier Emmett’s father, Louis, had also been killed – court-martialled and hanged. Though the circumstances could hardly have been more different, behind both deaths stood the same crime, of being black. In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman, born the same year as Emmett Till, investigates the tragic fates of father and son. Mixing research, memoir and imagination, this book is an essential commentary on racism in America – illuminating, humane and profound.
Let The People See
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Author : Elliott J. Gorn
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Let The People See written by Elliott J. Gorn and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with History categories.
The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's killers, Bryant's husband and his half-brother, were eventually acquitted on technicalities by an all-white jury despite overwhelming evidence. It seemed another case of Southern justice. Then details of what had happened to Till became public, which they did in part because Emmett's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted that his casket remain open during his funeral. The world saw the horror, and Till's story gripped the country and sparked outrage. Black journalists drove down to Mississippi and risked their lives interviewing townsfolk, encouraging witnesses, spiriting those in danger out of the region, and above all keeping the news cycle turning. It continues to turn. In 2005, fifty years after the murder, the FBI reopened the case. New papers and testimony have come to light, and several participants, including Till's mother, have published autobiographies. Using this new evidence and a broadened historical context, Elliott J. Gorn delves more fully than anyone has into how and why the story of Emmett Till still resonates, and always will. Till's murder marked a turning point, Gorn shows, and yet also reveals how old patterns of thought and behavior endure, and why we must look hard at them.