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Mississippi Trial, 1955 |
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Chris Crowe - Author
Tim Okamura - Jacket Illustrator
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.74 x 8.58in | 240 pages | ISBN 9780803727458 | 27 May 2002 | Dial | 12 - AND UP years |
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Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager from Chicago, was unused to the mores of the segregated South. While visiting his uncle in the summer of 1955, he allegedly made flirtatious remarks to a white woman. A few days later Emmett was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Although the white murderers were tried and acquitted, they later bragged publicly about the crime.
Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a gripping, fictionalized account of this infamous event, which prompted a national outcry at the time, and served as one of the triggers for the Civil Rights Movement. Told through the eyes of a white teenage boy, this book describes the boy's series of revelations about his family and other people of the town, and he forms a clearer view of the evils of racism, and the values he hopes to live up to.
Will get readers thinking. -Publishers Weekly
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