1941-1955

Explores new information about the murder of Emmett Till and explores how his death influenced the "Emmett Till generation," black boys and girls Emmett's age who grew up to launch the sit-in campaigns that propelled the civil rights movement into the national spotlight.

Discusses the case of the murder of Emmett Till and examines the investigative and forensic methods that crime scene investigators use in such situations.

"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--Provided by publisher.

An introduction to the circumstances surrounding the murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago who visited family in Mississippi in 1955.

Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.

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. Till?s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.

A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.

Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.

Examines the death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago murdered by two white men in August 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store, and discusses the killing's impact as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

Examine the world of the criminal investigator and other professions who are on the frontline of solving the murder of Emmett Till. Includes informative sidebars.