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Article: The Lynching of Emmett Till.(Book Review)
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- Southern Cultures
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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A Documentary Narrative Edited by Christopher Metress University of Virginia Press, 2002 360 pp. Cloth $59-50, paper $18.95
Born near Chicago in 1941, Emmett Till was murdered in the Mississippi Delta on August 28, 1955, and became the best-known victim of racial violence in American history. Visiting relatives shortly before he would have become an eighth grader, Till entered a store in Leflore County and as a prank behaved suggestively toward Carolyn Bryant, the 21-year-old wife of the absent owner. Be cause of the breach of racial etiquette, Carolyn's husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother, J. W. Milam, abducted Till from the home of his great-uncle, Moses ...