The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

291 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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