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2017.
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English
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"Smith ... confronts the tyranny against the black male body and the tenacious grief of mothers in her ... new collection. She writes an exhaustive lament for mothers of the 'dark magicians,' and revisits the devastating murder of Emmett Till. These dynamic sequences serve as a backdrop for present-day racial calamities and calls for resistance"--Amazon.com.
2) Ghost boys
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English
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"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a 66 year-old cold case? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new telling of the story of Emmett Till,...
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[2017]
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English
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In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before? 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 unconstitutional....
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having--supposedly--flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a store. Emmett was taken from the home of a relative later that night by white men; three days later, his naked body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Children
Black History Month - Tweens
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
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Black History Month - Tweens
Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
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"The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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