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Joy, Angela

Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TIL

Till-Mobley, Mamie

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 TIL

Parker, Wheeler

Summary: "In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKER, WHEELER PAR

Summary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TIL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Till

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD TIL

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TIL

Summary: A biography of Emmett Louis Till, an African-American teenager who was murdered for whistling at a white women in Mississippi in 1955. Chronicles director Beauchamp's decade-long effort to determine the true identities of Till's killers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNT

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