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Getting Away with Murder : The True Story of the Emmett till Case
by Crowe, Chris
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0803728042
- ISBN 13
- 9780803728042
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About This Item
Penguin Young Readers Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Synopsis
The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. Likely showing off to friends, Emmett allegedly whistled at a white woman. Three days later his brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. The extreme violence of the crime put a national spotlight on the Jim Crow ways of the South, and many Americans-Black and white-were further outraged at the speedy trial of the white murderers. Although the two white men were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury, they later bragged publicly about the crime. It was a galvanizing moment for Black leaders and ordinary citizens, including such activists as Rosa Parks. In clear, vivid detail Chris Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath of the crime, as well as the dramatic court trial, and places it into the context of the nascent Civil Rights Movement. With lively narrative and abundantly illustrated with forty fascinating contemporaneous photographs, this impressive work of nonfiction brings fresh insight to the case in a manner that will be accessible and eye-opening for teenagers and adults alike.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4182424-6
- Title
- Getting Away with Murder : The True Story of the Emmett till Case
- Author
- Crowe, Chris
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0803728042
- ISBN 13
- 9780803728042
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2003-05
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