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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement

Devery S. Anderson,

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Start date: June 1, 2019

Finish date: June 30, 2019

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Sep 10, 2018 Raymond rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Devery Anderson did an amazing job covering the history of the murder of Emmett Till, a 14 year old African-American boy from Chicago who was killed in Mississippi. This book had been on my radar for a few years but I finally decided to read it once I viewed Till's original casket in the National Museum of African-American History and Culture and after the recent news that the Department of Justice is reexamining the case. Anderson's book is divided into two parts. The first part covers the inci ...more

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