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Books
by Chris Crowe
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Presenting
Mildred D. Taylor |
| Mildred Delois Taylor
has been one of the leading writers for young adults
ever since her masterwork, Roll of Thunder, Hear My
Cry, won the Newbery Medal, the American Library Association’s
highest honor for young adult literature, in 1977. In
the seven novels that follow, she continues the saga
of the Logan family that began in her book, Song of
the Trees...
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Mississippi
Trial, 1955 |
| 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 aquitted, they later bragged publicly
about the crime. (read
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Getting
Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till
Case |
| Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old
Black youth 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 young white woman, the local beauty-pageant queen,
Carolyn Bryant. Three days later his brutally beaten
body was discovered floating in the Tallahatchie River.
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