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010			_a 2018001885
020			_a9780199325122 (hardbac)
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050	0	0	_aHV6465.M7 _bG67 2018
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100	1		_aGorn, Elliott J., _d1951-
245	1	0	_aLet the people see : _bthe story of Emmett Till / _cElliott J. Gorn.
246	3	0	_aStory of Emmett Till
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2018.
264		4	_c2018
300			_ax, 380 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having--supposedly--flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a store. Emmett was taken from the home of a relative later that night by white men; three days later, his naked body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's killers were acquitted, but details of what had happened to him became public; the story gripped the country and sparked outrage.It continues to turn. The murder has been the subject of books and documentaries, rising and falling in number with anniversaries and tie-ins, and shows no sign of letting up. The Till murder continues to haunt the American conscience. Fifty years later, in 2005, the FBI reopened the case. New papers and testimony have come to light, and several participants, including Till's mother, Mamie Till Mobley, have published autobiographies. Using this new evidence and a broadened historical context, Elliott Gorn delves into facets of the case never before studied and considers how and why the story of Emmett Till still resonates, and likely always will. Even as it marked a turning point, Gorn shows, hauntingly, it reveals how old patterns of thought and behavior linger in new faces, and how deeply embedded racism in America remains. Gorn does full justice to both Emmett and the Till Case--the boy and the symbol--and shows how and why their intersection illuminates a number of crossroads: of north and south, black and white, city and country, industrialization and agriculture, rich and poor, childhood and adulthood."--Provided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aTill, Emmett, _d1941-1955.
650		0	_aLynching _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xCrimes against _zMississippi.
650		0	_aRacism _zMississippi _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTrials (Murder) _zMississippi _zSumner.
650		0	_aHate crimes _zMississippi.
600	1	0	_aTill-Mobley, Mamie, _d1921-2003.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aMississippi _xRace relations.
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