Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

"Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement" offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it is the definitive account of the case. 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 D...