Product Description: Lynchings, beatings, arson, denial of rights, false imprisonment--the civil rights era brought attention to these heinous offenses that were the status quo for African Americans in many areas of the country. And no state was more notorious as a sanctuary for the murderers and perpetrators of hate crimes than Mississippi...read more

A memoir by the mother of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager whose 1955 kidnapping and murder ignited the civil rights movement, describes her feelings about the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the two white accused killers, and her personal struggle to overcome her grief to become a teacher and source of inspiration for hundreds of children. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.