Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till

by Elliott J. Gorn

Book Overview

The world knows the story of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's killers, Bryant's husband and his half-brother, were eventually acquitted on technicalities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019932512X
• ISBN13: 9780199325122
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"