Summary
"The event that launched the civil rights movement--the 1955 lynching of young Emmett Till--now reexamined by an award-winning author with access to never-before-heard accounts from those involved as well as recently recovered court transcripts from the trial,"--NoveList. Full description
- Nothing that boy did
- Boots on the porch
- Growing up black in Chicago
- Emmett in Chicago and "Little Mississippi"
- Pistol-whipping at Christmas
- The incident
- On the third day
- Mama made the earth tremble
- Warring regiments of Mississippi
- Black Monday
- People we don't need around here any more
- Fixed opinions
- Mississippi underground
- "There he is"
- Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you
- The verdict of the world
- Protest politics
- Killing Emmett Till
- Epilogue: the children of Emmett Till.