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Death of innocence : the story of the hate crime that changed America / Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson.

Author: Till-Mobley, Mamie, 1921-2003.

Edition Statement:1st Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.

Imprint:New York : One World, 2005, c2003.

Descriptionxxiii, 290 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Note:Originally published: New York : Random House, c2003.

Note:The mother of Emmett Till, a black teenager whose 1955 murder ignited the civil rights movement, discusses the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the accused killers, and her struggle to overcome her grief.



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Author:
Till-Mobley, Mamie, 1921-2003.
Subject:
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Death and burial.
Subject:
Lynching -- Mississippi.
Hate crimes -- Mississippi.
African American youth -- Crimes against -- Mississippi.
Racism -- Mississippi.
Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Primary sources.
Contributor
Benson, Chris, 1953-