Let the people see : the story of Emmett Till /

Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having, supposedly, flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a store. Emmett was taken from the home of a relat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gorn, Elliott J., 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • I seen two knees and feet
  • Argo, Illinois
  • Money, Mississippi
  • I'm kinda scared there's been foul play
  • Lynching
  • We will not be integrated
  • Let the people see what they did to my boy
  • Mississippi's infamy
  • Trial
  • A good place to raise a boy
  • The news capitol of the United States
  • Fair and impartial men
  • Moses Wright
  • Undertaker Chester Miller
  • Sheriff George Smith and deputy John Ed Cothran
  • Mamie Till Bradley
  • An interracial manhunt
  • Willie Reed
  • Carolyn Bryant
  • Sheriff Clarence Strider
  • Doctor L. B. Otken and undertaker H. D. Malone
  • Your forefathers will turn over in their graves
  • I'm real happy at the result
  • The soul of America
  • Each of you own a little bit of Emmett
  • A propaganda victory for international communism
  • Louis Till
  • Evil such as the Till case are the result of a system
  • As far as I know, the case is closed
  • We call upon the president of the United States
  • This is a war in Mississippi
  • Few talk about the Till case
  • The time had come. I could feel it. I could see it.
  • We've known his story forever
  • A whistle or a wink.