Crowe conveys the vicious prejudice and the sense of white superiority that led to Till’s death. Having allegedly called a white woman “baby,” he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by local white men. This painful but important story concerns Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, visiting his relatives in small-town Mississippi in 1955. The murder of Emmett Till and the trial in which his killers, who later confessed, were acquitted had a profound effect on the Civil Rights Movement. He was born in 1941 and killed on August 28th, 1955.
Lexile 1210.Įmmett Till would have been 74 this year.
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. In clear, vivid detail Chris Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath of the crime, as well as the dramatic court trial, and places it into the context of the nascent Civil Rights Movement.With lively narrative and abundantly illustrated with forty fascinating contemporaneous photographs, this impressive work of nonfiction brings fresh insight to the case in a manner that will be accessible and eye-opening for teenagers and adults alike.Crowe, Chris. It was a galvanizing moment for Black leaders and ordinary citizens, including such activists as Rosa Parks. Although the two white men were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury, they later bragged publicly about the crime.
The extreme violence of the crime put a national spotlight on the Jim Crow ways of the South, and many Americans-Black and white-were further outraged at the speedy trial of the white murderers. Three days later his brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. Likely showing off to friends, Emmett allegedly whistled at a white woman. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
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