Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement SS_Gift_Guide “An unfailingly inventive narrative

“An unfailingly inventive narrative

Finally taking matters into her own hands

from the desert to the mountains and sea

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before—the immortality

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement SS_Gift_Guide “An unfailingly inventive narrativeEmmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen year old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. Anderson utilizes documents that had never been available to previous researchers, such as the trial