A review by willwork4airfare
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

4.0

The epilogue was definitely my favorite part. A very interesting and well-written book, but it took me two weeks to get through because it's bogged down with so many (often repetitive) details. It also claimed to be the first to expose an exclusive interview with the woman behind the whole wolf-whistle allegation but her explosive testimony was pretty much that she doesn't really remember anymore, but he didn't do anything to deserve his gruesome murder, which already went without saying. If you didn't know anything about the case, I highly recommend this book! Otherwise, I didn't feel particularly shocked by any new developments or information. The epilogue ties Emmett Till's lynching into modern racism and the continued murder of unarmed black men, particularly by police. It is written by a white man, but a professor and a member of North Carolina's NAACP executive board, for whatever it's worth.