Benson, Christopher; Till-Mobley, Mamie

Death of Innocence : The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America

A memoir by the mother of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager whose 1955 kidnapping and murder ignited the civil rights movement, describes her feelings about the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the two white accused killers, and her personal struggle to overcome her grief to become a teacher and source of inspiration for hundr