DOC The Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943 (Images of War) by Anthony Tucker-Jones in History

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).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. Only weeks later; Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery; Alabama. Five years later; Black students who called themselves “the Emmett Till generation” launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till’s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history. But what actually happened to Emmett Till—not the icon of injustice; but the flesh-and-blood boy? Part detective story; part political history; The Blood of Emmett Till “unfolds like a movie” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution); drawing on a wealth of new evidence; including a shocking admission of Till’s innocence from the woman in whose name he was killed. “Jolting and powerful” (The Washington Post); the book “provides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutions” (Diane McWhorter; Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Carry Me Home) and “calls us to the cause of justice today” (Rev. Dr. William J. Barber; II; president of the North Carolina NAACP).