 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.
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.
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