Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
- ISBN-10
- 1496814770
- ISBN-13
- 9781496814777
- Category
- African Americans
- Pages
- 584
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-29
- Publisher
- Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
- Author
- Devery S. Anderson
Description
A gripping reexamination of the abduction and murder that galvanized the civil rights movement
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Other editions
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- 2015-08-18
- 560 pages
- Ebook
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
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- 2000
- 363 pages
- Paperback
- Bedford Publishers
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