(Ebook) Emmett Till: Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson ISBN 9781496802842, 9781496802859, 9782320150054, 2320150056, 1496802845, 1496802853

(Ebook) Emmett Till: Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson ISBN 9781496802842, 9781496802859, 9782320150054, 2320150056, 1496802845, 1496802853

Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, & as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, & the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case & Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it is the definitive account of the case. 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 transcript, long-hidden depositions by key players in the case, & interviews given by Carolyn Bryant to the FBI in 2004 (her first in fifty years), as well as other recently revealed FBI documents. Anderson also interviewed family members of the accused killers, most of whom agreed to talk for the first time, as well as several journalists who covered the murder trial in 1955. Till's murder & the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history, the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change. Anderson's exhaustively researched book was also the basis for the ABC miniseries Women of the Movement.... For six decades the Till story has continued to haunt the South as the lingering injustice of Till's murder & the aftermath altered many lives. Fifty years after the murder, renewed interest in the case led the Justice Department to open an investigation into identifying & possibly prosecuting accomplices of the two men originally tried. Between 2004 & 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the first real probe into the killing & turned up important information that had been lost for decades.