At 2:00 A.M. on August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till,
visiting from Chicago, was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in
Money, Mississippi, and never seen alive again. When his battered
and bloated corpse floated to the surface of the Tallahatchie River
three days later and two local white men were arrested for his
murder, young Till's death was primed to become the spark that set
off the civil rights movement.
With a collection of more than one hundred documents spanning
almost half a century, Christopher Metress retells Till's story in
a unique and daring way. Juxtaposing news accounts and
investigative journalism with memoirs, poetry, and fiction, this
documentary narrative not only includes material by such prominent
figures as Hodding Carter, Chester Himes, Eleanor Roosevelt, James
Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Eldridge Cleaver, Bob Dylan, John Edgar
Wideman, Lewis Nordan, and Michael Eric Dyson, but it also contains
several previously unpublished works--among them a newly discovered
Langston Hughes poem--and a generous selection of hard-to-find
documents never before collected.
Exploring the means by which historical events become part of
the collective social memory, The Lynching of Emmett Till is both
an anthology that tells an important story and a narrative about
how we come to terms with key moments in history.
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