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020    9780190092191|q(paperback) 
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092 0  364|bengelska 
100 1  Gorn, Elliott J.,|d1951-|4aut 
245 10 Let the people see :|bthe story of Emmett Till /|cElliott 
       J. Gorn 
246 10 Story of Emmett Till 
264  1 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c[2018] 
300    x, 380 pages|billustrations|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    "While visiting family in Mississippi in August 1955, 
       Emmett Till allegedly whistled at a white woman working 
       behind the counter of a crossroads country store. Her 
       husband and brother-in-law kidnapped the fourteen-year-old
       Chicago kid in the middle of the night and tortured, beat,
       and shot him. Three days later, his body rose from the 
       Tallahatchie River, a cotton gin fan tied around his neck 
       with barbed wire. Confronting her son's nightmarishly 
       disfigured face, Mamie Till-Mobley, Till's mother, decided
       that his funeral in Chicago would be open-casket. 'Let the
       people see what they did to my boy.' The South Side church
       where her son's body lay in state kept its doors open day 
       and night. More than one hundred thousand people came and 
       saw his face. Millions more stared at the photographs of 
       it published in the African American press, especially Jet
       magazine and the Chicago Defender. The pictures galvanized
       the black community. Journalists and activists drove down 
       to the Mississippi Delta, and risked their lives 
       interviewing townsfolk, encouraging witnesses, spiriting 
       those in danger out of the region, and above all keeping 
       the news cycle turning. Less than a month after Till's 
       murder, despite strong evidence, a fair-minded judge, and 
       prosecutors eager for a conviction, an all-white jury 
       found Till's killers not guilty. For African Americans, 
       the Till lynching and acquittal was a defining moment. 
       Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, Anne Moody, John Lewis, and 
       countless others later said that it changed their lives. 
       They were 'the Emmett Till generation,' and they would 
       help lead the greatest mass movement in twentieth-century 
       America. His story haunts us still, its meanings blurring 
       and shifting with time. Documentaries, histories, memoirs,
       and oral testimony have revealed new facts. In 2005, fifty
       years after the lynching, his murderers long dead, the FBI
       reopened the Till case. They reopened it again the summer 
       of 2018, after new revelations came to light. Building on 
       all the material, old and new, Elliott J. Gorn offers the 
       most complete and immersive account of Emmett Till's 
       story. Let the People See also probes its enduring truths,
       truths we confront with each fresh spasm of racial 
       violence. Till is more with us today than at any time 
       since 1955, his name invoked whenever another young black 
       man falls victim. His face remains the face of racism, and,
       as Gorn shows us in this haunting and definitive account, 
       we cannot turn away from it."--Dust jacket 
520    August 1955. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till from Chicago 
       was murdered in Mississippi for having-- supposedly-- 
       flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was 
       working behind the counter of a store. His naked body was 
       recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a 
       cotton-gin fan. Till's killers were acquitted, but details
       of what had happened to him became public; the story 
       gripped the country and sparked outrage. It continues to 
       haunt the American conscience. In 2005 the FBI reopened 
       the case. With access to new evidence and a broadened 
       historical context, Gorn considers how and why the story 
       of Emmett Till still resonates, and likely always will. --
       adapted from jacket 
600 10 Till, Emmett,|d1941-1955 
600 10 Till-Mobley, Mamie,|d1921-2003 
648  7 1900-talet|2sao 
650  0 Lynching|zMississippi|xHistory|y20th century 
650  0 African Americans|xCrimes against|zMississippi 
650  0 Racism|zMississippi|xHistory|y20th century 
650  0 Trials (Murder)|zMississippi|zSumner 
650  0 Hate crimes|zMississippi 
650  7 Afro-amerikaner|2sao 
650  7 Hatbrott|2sao 
650  7 Lynchning|2sao 
650  7 Raskonflikter|2sao 
650  7 Rasism|2sao 
650  7 Rättegång|2sao 
651  0 United States|xRace relations|xHistory|y20th century 
651  0 Mississippi|xRace relations 
651  7 Förenta staterna|zMississippi (delstat)|2sao