Overview
Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black youth from the South Side of Chicago traveled to Money, Mississippi for a summer vacation. It was 1955; racial tensions were extremely reprehensible in the South. During his visit the youth became embroiled in a wolf-whistle incident with a white woman, which led to his brutal murder. The atrocity of Emmett TillÆs lynch/murder set off a chain reaction that emerged as the vanguard event which catapulted one of the most extensive civil rights movements in U.S. History.
- | Author: Michael Joseph Miller
- | Publisher: Mjm Publishing, Llc
- | Publication Date: Apr 06, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 358 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/True Crime
- | ISBN-10: 0578172887
- | ISBN-13: 9780578172880
