The Emmett Till Generation
Youth Activism in Jim Crow Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.
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Youth Activism in Jim Crow Jackson, Mississippi, 1963.
Mose Wright’s 1955 testimony at the trial of Emmett Till’s murderers demonstrates that fear did not hinder Black resistance during the civil rights era.
In his last and least known book, James Baldwin demonstrates how the Atlanta Child Murders were not an aberration but rather evidence of the failures of integration, the growing divide between the Black poor and the middle classes, and the need to claim the dead as our own.
The Bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley