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100 1  Wideman, John Edgar,|eauthor. 
245 10 Writing to save a life :|bthe Louis Till file|h[Hoopla 
       electronic resource] /|cJohn Edgar Wideman. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bSimon & Schuster Audio,|c2016. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 0  Read by Roger Guenveur Smith. 
520    An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of 
       iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till-a man who was 
       executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An 
       evocative and personal exploration of individual and 
       collective memory in America by one of the most formidable
       Black intellectuals of our time. In 1955, Emmett Till, 
       aged fourteen, traveled from his home in Chicago to visit 
       family in Mississippi. Several weeks later he returned, 
       dead; allegedly he whistled at a white woman. His mother, 
       Mamie, wanted the world to see what had been done to her 
       son. She chose to leave his casket open. Images of her 
       brutalized boy were published widely. While Emmett's story
       is known, there's a dark side note that's rarely 
       mentioned. Ten years earlier, Emmett's father was executed
       by the Army for rape and murder. In Writing to Save a Life,
       John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent 
       victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal 
       interaction with the story began when he learned of 
       Emmett's murder in 1955; Wideman was also fourteen years 
       old. After reading decades later about Louis's execution, 
       he couldn't escape the twin tragedies of father and son, 
       and tells their stories together for the first time. 
       Author of the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Wideman 
       brings extraordinary insight and a haunting intimacy to 
       this devastating story. An amalgam of research, memoir, 
       and imagination, Writing to Save a Life is completely 
       original in its delivery-an engaging and enlightening 
       conversation between generations, the living and the dead,
       fathers and sons. Wideman turns seventy-five this year, 
       and he brings the force of his substantial intellect and 
       experience to this beautiful, stirring book, his first 
       nonfiction in fifteen years. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955|xDeath and burial. 
600 10 Till, Louis,|d1922-1945|xDeath and burial. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAfrican Americans|vBiography. 
650  0 African American soldiers|vBiography. 
650  0 African American men|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 
700 1  Smith, Roger Guenveur,|eNarrator. 
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