Getting Away with Murder (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))
by Chris Crowe
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Author: Chris CroweEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-05-26
ISBN: 0803728042
Number of pages: 128
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Dial
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- ISBN13: 9780803728042
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Review: Review of Emmet Tilll book
Summary: 5 Stars
Book was received quickly and in excellent condition. Story is an engrossing tale of the abuse of civil rights in the 1950s and '60s.
Summary of Getting Away with Murder (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))
The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old Black teenager from Chicago, was visiting family in a small town in Mississippi during the summer of 1955. Likely showing off to friends, Emmett allegedly whistled at a white woman. Three days later his brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. The extreme violence of the crime put a national spotlight on the Jim Crow ways of the South, and many Americans-Black and white-were further outraged at the speedy trial of the white murderers. Although the two white men were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury, they later bragged publicly about the crime. It was a galvanizing moment for Black leaders and ordinary citizens, including such activists as Rosa Parks. In clear, vivid detail Chris Crowe investigates the before-and-aftermath of the crime, as well as the dramatic court trial, and places it into the context of the nascent Civil Rights Movement.With lively narrative and abundantly illustrated with forty fascinating contemporaneous photographs, this impressive work of nonfiction brings fresh insight to the case in a manner that will be accessible and eye-opening for teenagers and adults alike.
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