The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

304 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history race true crime reflective slow-paced
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In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconst...

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informative 88%
sad 77%
dark 64%
emotional 59%
challenging 46%
reflective 44%
tense 38%
inspiring 5%
hopeful 3%

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slow 28%
fast 6%

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