Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case
Edition
Revised and updated.
Publication Information
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2018]
Physical Description
144 pages : illustrations, map
Summary
Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
Notes
"Updated with new content"--cover.
Contents
- The boy who triggered the civil rights movement
- Kicking the hornets' nest
- The boy from Chicago
- The wolf whistle
- Setting the stage
- Getting away with murder
- Aftershocks.
Subjects
- Lynching > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- African American teenage boys > Mississippi > Biography.
- Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
- Trials (Murder) > Mississippi.
- Mississippi > Race relations.
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 > Death and burial.