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2017., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning Call No: CRIME Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.Summary Note: Explores what happened to fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, whose murder was part of the backlash that occured in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional.
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2003., Random House Call No: 973.921 TIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.
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By Crowe, Chris2003., Juvenile, P. Fogelman Books Call No: 973.921 CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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By Crowe, Chrisc2003., Phyllis Fogelman Books Call No: HI-INT 364.15 CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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By Crowe, Chrisc2003., Juvenile, Phyllis Fogelman Books Call No: 364.15 CROWE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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c2008., DC Comics Call No: GN Incognegro Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A graphic novel in which an African-American reporter Zane Pinchback "passes" for white and he is able to report lynchings by white vigilante mobs. However when his own brother is accused of murdering a white woman, Zane travels south and finds himself in deep trouble.
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2002., University of Virginia Press Call No: 973.921 MET Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American South seriesSummary Note: Contains newspaper articles, editorials, poems, songs, interviews, essays, and memoirs that shed light on the relationship between memory and history through an examination of the case of Emmett Till, an African-American teen who was murdered in Money, Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly offending a white woman.
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-- Emmett Tillc2003., General, PBS Home Video PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 973.921 MUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
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2009, c2005., Pre-adolescent, Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 811 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A poem to remind us of the fate of a young African American boy who whistled at a white woman and was killed for it.
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2005, Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices--to speak what we see. Newbery Honor-winning poet Nelson offers an evocative tribute to a 14-year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 helps spark the civil rights movement. Full color
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-- Emmett Tillc2005., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 811 NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.
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-- Emmett Till2005., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 811 Nel Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.