Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till

by Elliott J Gorn

Book Overview

While visiting family in Mississippi in August 1955, Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman working behind the counter of a crossroads country store. Her husband and brother-in-law kidnapped the fourteen-year-old Chicago kid in the middle of the night and tortured, beat, and shot him. Three days later, his body rose from the Tallahatchie River, a cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.

Confronting her son's nightmarishly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019009219X
• ISBN13: 9780190092191
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.9"