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

Description

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 86%
sad 80%
emotional 66%
dark 63%
challenging 47%
reflective 41%
tense 36%
hopeful 5%
inspiring 5%

Pace

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slow 28%
fast 3%

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