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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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.