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The Blood of Emmett Till de Timothy B. Tyson
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The Blood of Emmett Till (2017 original; edició 2017)

de Timothy B. Tyson (Autor)

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Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of members, and inspired famous activists like Rosa Parks to stand up and fight for equal rights for the first time. Part detective story, part political history, Tyson revises the history of the Till case, using a wide range of new sources, including the only interview ever given by Carolyn Bryant. In a time where discussions of race are once again coming to the fore, Tyson redefines this crucial moment in civil rights history.… (més)
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Títol:The Blood of Emmett Till
Autors:Timothy B. Tyson (Autor)
Informació:Simon & Schuster (2017), 304 pages
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I don't even know where to begin. The USA has come so far since 1955. But over the course of the past year, all the deaths, pain, hurt, protests, legislation have seemed to be for naught. We have a leader who yearns for the time so deftly described in this book. I am embarrassed for our country, for how our government and its citizens treated African-Americans in our past. And to a lesser extent, today.

This country owes a tremendous debt to Miss Mamie. For if she had not decided to let the world ”see what they did", I truly believe the Civil Rights Movement in this country would never have progressed as quickly as it did, although, not quickly enough IMHO.

I implore everyone to read this book. ( )
  BenM2023 | Nov 22, 2023 |
This tragedy is a part of our history... a crime that can't be erased. Just a reminder that we must pay homage to the ones that came before us.
This book gave me new insight from different viewpoints. Very well-written. ( )
  KKOR2029 | Nov 2, 2023 |
A must read. Any review of mine could never do this book justice, so here is a quote from the book itself:

We are still killing black youth because we have not yet killed white supremacy. As a political program white supremacy avers that white people have a right to rule. That is obviously morally unacceptable, and few of its devotees will speak its name. But that enfeebled faith is not nearly so insidious and lethal as its robust, covert and often unconscious cousin: the assumption that God has created humanity in a hierarchy of moral, cultural and intellectual worth, with lighter-skinned people at the top and darker-skinned people at the bottom...

To see beyond the ghosts, all of us must develop the moral vision and political will to crush white supremacy — both the political program and the concealed assumptions. We have to come to grips with our own history — not only genocide, slavery, exploitation and systems of oppression, but also the legacies of those who resisted and fought back and still fight back. We must find what Dr. King called the “strength to love.” New social movements must confront head-on the racial chasm in American life. “Not everything that is faced can be changed,” Baldwin instructs, “but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”


You can read a longer excerpt in the Atlanta Journal Constitution: http://specials.myajc.com/emmett-till/ ( )
  beckyrenner | Aug 3, 2023 |
Great, informative book. Storytelling and research are on point, the author ties everything together quite nicely. One of my favorite books, it's everything you want it to be. Complete, but not too much information, well-written and extremely touching and thought-provoking. ( )
  vdh01 | Jul 18, 2022 |
A meticulously-researched book about the kidnapping and lynching of 14-year old, Chicagoan Emmett Till, while visiting his family in Mississippi in 1955. Sadly, the book was focused more on the consequences than the events, since the only living person who knows what actually happened (Carolyn Brant) won't say or doesn't remember. Only a few characters were developed, making the book largely uninteresting: mother, uncle, and the local Sheriff. I fear that the "us versus them" racist mentality of white Mississippi in this timeframe is on the rise again today in many places domestically. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
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My name is being called on the road to freedom. I can hear the blood of Emmett Till as it calls from the ground...When shall we go? Not tomorrow! Not at high noon! Now!
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Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of members, and inspired famous activists like Rosa Parks to stand up and fight for equal rights for the first time. Part detective story, part political history, Tyson revises the history of the Till case, using a wide range of new sources, including the only interview ever given by Carolyn Bryant. In a time where discussions of race are once again coming to the fore, Tyson redefines this crucial moment in civil rights history.

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