The Murder of Emmett Till (The Civil Rights Movement)
by David Aretha
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Chronicles the 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, of Chicago teenager, Emmett Till, by local store owner Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, the trial and acquittal that followed, and how the incident impacted the civil rights movement.Tags
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David Aretha, editor of the acclaimed Civil Rights Chronicle: The African-American Struggle for Freedom, has written numerous books on the subject for young readers.
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- People/Characters
- Emmett Till
- Original language
- English
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