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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow

Robert H. Mayer, Foreword by Leslie-Burl McLemore

Ages: 14+

Published: 2021

Publisher: NewSouth Books

ISBN: 978-1-58838-437-9

Keywords: African American Civil Rights Movements--20th Century, African American Student Movements 20th Century, Mississippi History--20th Century

Following 14-year-old Emmett Till's 1955 lynching, young people in Mississippi rose up to launch the Civil Rights Movement. Photos, map, extensive back matter.