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African American men Social conditions 20th century African American youth Crimes against Mississippi Hate crimes Mississippi Lynching Mississippi Mississippi Race relations Racism Mississippi Till, Emmett 1941-1955 Death and burial Trials (Murder) Mississippi Wideman, John Edgar World War, 1939-1945 ItalyWideman, John Edgar
Summary: "In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett’s murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years old. After reading decades later about Louis’s execution, he couldn’t escape the twin tragedies of father and son, and tells their stories together for the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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Summary: The mother of Emmett Till, a black teenager whose 1955 murder ignited the civil rights movement, discusses the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the accused killers, and her struggle to overcome her grief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003