The blood of Emmett Till
Author:
Publisher:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Pub. Date:
Varies, see individual formats and editions
Language:
English
Description
This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The Atlantic).
* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of the Year *
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves "the Emmett Till generation" launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till's lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.
But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story, part political history, The Blood of Emmett Till "unfolds like a movie" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), drawing on a wealth of new evidence, including a shocking admission of Till's innocence from the woman in whose name he was killed. "Jolting and powerful" (The Washington Post), the book "provides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutions" (Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Carry Me Home) and "calls us to the cause of justice today" (Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP).
* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of the Year *
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves "the Emmett Till generation" launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till's lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.
But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story, part political history, The Blood of Emmett Till "unfolds like a movie" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), drawing on a wealth of new evidence, including a shocking admission of Till's innocence from the woman in whose name he was killed. "Jolting and powerful" (The Washington Post), the book "provides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutions" (Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Carry Me Home) and "calls us to the cause of justice today" (Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP).
More Copies In LINK+
Loading LINK+ Copies...
Subjects
Subjects
African Americans
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi
Biographies
Crimes against
Gender Studies
Hate crimes
Hate crimes -- Mississippi
History
Lynching
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Mississippi -- Race relations
Nonfiction
Race relations
Racism
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Sociology
Southern States
Till, Emmett
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955
Trials (Murder)
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Sumner
True Crime
Twentieth century
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi
Biographies
Crimes against
Gender Studies
Hate crimes
Hate crimes -- Mississippi
History
Lynching
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Mississippi -- Race relations
Nonfiction
Race relations
Racism
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Sociology
Southern States
Till, Emmett
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955
Trials (Murder)
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Sumner
True Crime
Twentieth century
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
More Details
Contributors:
ISBN:
9781476714851
9781476714844
9781666586497
9781476714868
9781476714844
9781666586497
9781476714868
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 0400c725-6f18-2814-56c0-3469ec1a2a56 |
---|---|
Grouping Title | blood of emmett till |
Grouping Author | timothy b tyson |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-03-28 02:11:39AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-03-28 02:24:37AM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
auth_author2
Price, Rhett S.
author
Tyson, Timothy B.
author2-role
Price, Rhett S.,reader
hoopla digital
hoopla digital
author_display
Tyson, Timothy B.
available_at_catalog
Central
Colonial Heights
Franklin
Galt
North Natomas
Colonial Heights
Franklin
Galt
North Natomas
detailed_location_catalog
Central
Colonial Heights
Franklin
Galt
North Natomas
Colonial Heights
Franklin
Galt
North Natomas
display_description
This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The Atlantic).
* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of the Year *
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves "the Emmett Till generation" launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till's lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.
But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story, part political history, The Blood of Emmett Till "unfolds like a movie" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), drawing on a wealth of new evidence, including a shocking admission of Till's innocence from the woman in whose name he was killed. "Jolting and powerful" (The Washington Post), the book "provides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutions" (Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Carry Me Home) and "calls us to the cause of justice today" (Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP).
* A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of the Year *
In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves "the Emmett Till generation" launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till's lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.
But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story, part political history, The Blood of Emmett Till "unfolds like a movie" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), drawing on a wealth of new evidence, including a shocking admission of Till's innocence from the woman in whose name he was killed. "Jolting and powerful" (The Washington Post), the book "provides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutions" (Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Carry Me Home) and "calls us to the cause of justice today" (Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP).
format_catalog
Book
eAudiobook
eBook
eAudiobook
eBook
format_category_catalog
Audio Books
Books
eBook
Books
eBook
id
0400c725-6f18-2814-56c0-3469ec1a2a56
isbn
9781476714844
9781476714851
9781476714868
9781666586497
9781476714851
9781476714868
9781666586497
itype_catalog
Adult Book Non-Fiction
Adult Fiction
Adult Fiction
last_indexed
2024-03-28T09:24:37.294Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Non Fiction
literary_form_full
Non Fiction
local_callnumber_catalog
364.134 T574zt2 2017
owning_library_catalog
Sacramento Public Library
owning_location_catalog
Central
Colonial Heights
Franklin
Galt
North Natomas
Colonial Heights
Franklin
Galt
North Natomas
primary_isbn
9781476714851
publishDate
2017
publisher
Dreamscape Media
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi
Biographies
Hate crimes -- Mississippi
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Mississippi -- Race relations
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Southern States
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Sumner
Twentieth century
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Biographies
Hate crimes -- Mississippi
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Mississippi -- Race relations
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Southern States
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Sumner
Twentieth century
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
title_display
The blood of Emmett Till
title_full
The Blood of Emmett Till
The Blood of Emmett Till [electronic resource] / Timothy B. Tyson
The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson
The Blood of Emmett Till [electronic resource] / Timothy B. Tyson
The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson
title_short
The blood of Emmett Till
topic_facet
African Americans
Crimes against
Gender Studies
Hate crimes
History
Lynching
Nonfiction
Race relations
Racism
Sociology
Till, Emmett
Trials (Murder)
True Crime
Twentieth century
Crimes against
Gender Studies
Hate crimes
History
Lynching
Nonfiction
Race relations
Racism
Sociology
Till, Emmett
Trials (Murder)
True Crime
Twentieth century
Solr Details Tables
item_details
Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Loc | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:201b66e5-b4f1-42b3-aea9-c0767960b84c | -2 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 1 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
hoopla:MWT11815371 | Online Hoopla Collection | Online Hoopla | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 1 | false | true | Hoopla | https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11815371?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435 | Available Online | |||
overdrive:b05ccb7f-5f52-4aa3-83fa-494d39949c86 | -2 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eAudiobook | Audio Books | 2 | false | true | OverDrive | Available Online | |||
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293419 | Galt | 364.134 T574zt2 2017 | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | galag | |||||
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293407 | North Natomas | 364.134 T574zt2 2017 | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | nntag | |||||
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293390 | Franklin | 364.134 T574zt2 2017 | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | fraag | |||||
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293420 | Colonial Heights | 364.134 T574zt2 2017 | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | chsag | |||||
ils:.b24493910 | .i77342422 | Central | 364.134 T574zt2 2017 | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | cenag | |||||
ils:.b24493910 | .i77161026 | Sutter County Main Branch | 364.134 TYS | 1 | false | false | On Shelf | suta | |||||
ils:.b24493910 | .i75360275 | Woodland Public Library | 364.134 Tys 2017 | 1 | false | false | Due Apr 16, 2024 | wdpa |
record_details
Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:201b66e5-b4f1-42b3-aea9-c0767960b84c | eBook | eBook | English | Simon & Schuster | 2017 | |||
hoopla:MWT11815371 | eAudiobook | Audio Books | Unabridged | English | Dreamscape Media | 2017 | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 36 min.)) : digital. | |
overdrive:b05ccb7f-5f52-4aa3-83fa-494d39949c86 | eAudiobook | Audio Books | English | Dreamscape Media | 2017 | |||
ils:.b24493910 | Book | Books | First edition | English | Simon & Schuster | [2017] | x, 291 pages ; 25 cm |
scoping_details_catalog
Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Local Url |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:201b66e5-b4f1-42b3-aea9-c0767960b84c | -2 | Checked Out | Checked Out | false | false | true | false | false | false | |||
hoopla:MWT11815371 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | false | false | false | false | ||||
overdrive:b05ccb7f-5f52-4aa3-83fa-494d39949c86 | -2 | Available Online | Available Online | false | true | true | false | false | false | |||
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293419 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | true | false | true | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 | 11 | |
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293407 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | true | false | true | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 | 11 | |
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293390 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | true | false | true | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 | 11 | |
ils:.b24493910 | .i75293420 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | true | false | true | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 | 11 | |
ils:.b24493910 | .i77342422 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | true | false | true | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 | 11 | |
ils:.b24493910 | .i77161026 | On Shelf | On Shelf | false | true | true | false | false | false | 9999 | ||
ils:.b24493910 | .i75360275 | Checked Out | Checked Out | false | false | true | false | false | false | 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 69, 70, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 |