Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson, Julian Bond

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

Devery S. Anderson, Julian Bond

601 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction historical history dark slow-paced
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A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movementEmmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old A...

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