Death in the Delta - The Story of Emmett Till

Informationen zum Autor Stephen J. Whitfield is the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University. He is the author of A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald and The Culture of the Cold War . Klappentext Here is the full, shocking story of the lynching that exposed the true brutality of the nation's tradition of racism to a confident prosperous post-World War II America and helped ignite the 1960s civil rights movement. Zusammenfassung Though they were acquitted! these same defendants were soon being ostracized by their own neighbors! and within four months of Till's death! Southern blacks were staging the historic Montgomery bus boycott-the first major battle in the coming war against racial injustice that would lead to the passage of civil rights legislation a decade later.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen J. Whitfield, Stephen J. (Brandeis University) Whitfield
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.12.1991
• EAN: 9780801843266
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4326-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education