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Author Crowe, Chris.

Title Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till case / by Chris Crowe.

Publication Info. New York : Phyllis Fogelman Books, [2003]
©2003
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1162786~S1
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 95th Street Adult Biography  BIO TILL    AVAILABLE
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Description 128 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128).
Contents The boy who triggered the civil rights movement -- Kicking the hornets' nest -- The boy from Chicago -- The wolf whistle -- Setting the stage -- Getting away with murder -- Aftershocks.
Subject Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
African American teenage boys -- Mississippi -- Biography.
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi.
ISBN 0803728042
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