The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson Estimated delivery 4-14 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description 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. Tills 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 Tills 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). "The Blood of Emmett Till is a work critical not just to our understanding of something that happened in America in 1955 but of what happens in America here and now. It is a jolting and powerful book... swift-flying and meticulously researched." — Leonard Pitts, The Washington Post "An insightful, revealing and important new inquiry into the tragedy that mobilized and energized a generation of Americans to stand and fight against racial bigotry." — Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy "Tim Tysons genius as a historian, author, and social visionary informs his unique commitment to write truth to power authentically and fearlessly." — Dr. Benjamin Chavis, former executive director of the NAACP "What sets Tysons book apart is the wide-angle lens he uses to examine the lynching, and the ugly parallels between past and present… A terrific writer and storyteller, Tyson compels a closer look at a heinous crime and the consequential decisions, large and small, that made it a national issue." — Minneapolis Star Tribune "A critical book... [that] manages to turn the past into prophecy and demands that we do the one vital thing we arent often enough asked to do with history: learn from it." — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic Author Biography Timothy B. Tyson is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture at Duke Divinity School, and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of The Blood of Emmett Till, a New York Times bestseller; Blood Done Sign My Name, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Southern Book Award for Nonfiction and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, as well as the basis for a feature film; and Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, winner of the James Rawley Prize for best book on race and the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for best first book in US History from the Organization of American Historians, and the basis for the prize-winning documentary Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power. He serves on the executive board of the North Carolina NAACP and the UNC Center for Civil Rights. Details ISBN 1476714851 ISBN-13 9781476714851 Title The Blood of Emmett Till Author Timothy B. Tyson Format Paperback Year 2017 Pages 304 Publisher Simon & Schuster GE_Item_ID:123907156; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. 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ISBN-13: 9781476714851

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Book Title: Blood of Emmett Till

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Topic: United States / 20th Century, Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Legal History, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2017

Genre: Law, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 8.6 Oz

Item Length: 8.4 in

Author: Timothy B. Tyson

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Format: Trade Paperback