

Blood of Emmett Till, The
Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Narrator: Rhett S. Price
Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 02/07/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Modern History
Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Narrator: Rhett S. Price
Unabridged: 9 hr 19 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 02/07/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Modern History
Timothy B. Tyson is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Visiting Professor of American Christianity & Southern Culture at Duke Divinity School, and adjunct professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina. His novel Blood Done Sign My Name was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He serves on the North Carolina NAACP executive board.
Emmett Till's story is being made into a movie, Till, which will focus on his mother's actions. I've shared THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL with 'my' high school students for the past few years. To tell Emmett's story and to highlight his mother's courageous actions. This woman grabbed her grief and wielde......more
In 1955 an all-white male jury found the two white defendants not guilty of killing a black boy even though they had confessed to the crime. This is one of the worst incidents of “Southern Justice” in our nation’s history. The victim was a fourteen-year-old black boy from Chicago who was visiting a......more