BlackBoard Nonfiction Book of the Year.courage transformed her loss into a moral compass for a nation.” - Black Issues Book Review Robert F. In his mother’s descriptions, Emmett becomes more than an icon he becomes a living, breathing youngster-any mother’s child.” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Powerful. inform or remind people of what a courageous figure for justice was and how important she and her son were to setting the stage for the modern-day civil rights movement.” - The Detroit News “Poignant. A riveting account of a tragedy that upended her life and ultimately the Jim Crow system.” - Chicago Tribune “The book will. Praise for Death of Innocence “A testament to the power of the indestructible human spirit speaks as eloquently as the diary of Anne Frank.” - The Washington Post Book World “With this important book, has helped ensure that the story of her son (and her own story) will not soon be forgotten. Death of Innocence is an essential document in the annals of American civil rights history, and a painful yet beautiful account of a mother’s ability to transform tragedy into boundless courage and hope.

What followed altered the course of this country’s history-and it was all set in motion by the sheer will, determination, and courage of Mamie Till-Mobley, whose actions galvanized the civil rights movement, leaving an indelible mark on our racial consciousness.

His crime: allegedly whistling at a white woman in a convenience store. In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement-with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L.

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