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Description:The face of Emmett Till is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a chicago teenager who, while visting relatives in Money, Miss., in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by two white men who claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for "allegedly" whistling at a local white woman. The horror and the brutality of this crime were magnified even more when his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the fateful decision to invite the media to the funeral where she had an open casket. The shocking pictures were published by the American black press and were later republished around the world. The ramifications of the act are still being felt today. As retold for the fist time within a creative, nonfictional genre by Mamie Till-Mobley, the play chronicles this tragedy, its aftermath, and her heroic crusade for justice. The year 2005 commemorated the 50th anniversary of this incident, which has rightfully been called "the hate crime that changed America" and in fact sparked the civil rights, movement two months after the death of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks stood up against Jim Crow and helped spearhead the historic Montgomery bus boycott. She has often cited the tragic death of Emmett Till as one of a myriad of reasons she refused to give her seat to a white passenger.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Face of Emmett Till. To get started finding The Face of Emmett Till, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 88

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing

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ISBN: 1583423257

Description: The face of Emmett Till is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a chicago teenager who, while visting relatives in Money, Miss., in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by two white men who claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for "allegedly" whistling at a local white woman. The horror and the brutality of this crime were magnified even more when his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the fateful decision to invite the media to the funeral where she had an open casket. The shocking pictures were published by the American black press and were later republished around the world. The ramifications of the act are still being felt today. As retold for the fist time within a creative, nonfictional genre by Mamie Till-Mobley, the play chronicles this tragedy, its aftermath, and her heroic crusade for justice. The year 2005 commemorated the 50th anniversary of this incident, which has rightfully been called "the hate crime that changed America" and in fact sparked the civil rights, movement two months after the death of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks stood up against Jim Crow and helped spearhead the historic Montgomery bus boycott. She has often cited the tragic death of Emmett Till as one of a myriad of reasons she refused to give her seat to a white passenger.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Face of Emmett Till. To get started finding The Face of Emmett Till, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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