A few days full of trouble : revelations on the journey to justice for my cousin and best friend, Emmett Till / Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr and Christopher Benson.
The last surviving eyewitness to the 1955 lynching of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till tells the story of the case that ignited the civil rights movement, as well as memories of Till as a boy and insights into the investigation.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593134269
- ISBN: 0593134265
- Physical Description: 391 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 364.134 PARKER 2023 (Text) | 0001012503042 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Table of Contents
A Few Days Full of Trouble : Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. xi | |
1 | White Lies | p. 3 |
2 | What Is Life? | p. 17 |
3 | "What Does Justice Look Like?" | p. 39 |
4 | "Investigate and Legislate" | p. 53 |
5 | Unreasonable Doubt | p. 64 |
6 | A Place Called Slaughter | p. 84 |
7 | Broken Promises | p. 102 |
8 | Law and Order | p. 124 |
9 | Tale of the Tape | p. 148 |
10 | Reading Between the Lies | p. 163 |
11 | Alternative Facts | p. 181 |
12 | Monuments, Memorials, Memories | p. 200 |
13 | House of Mirrors | p. 228 |
14 | Appropriation | p. 245 |
15 | Ghost Skins | p. 271 |
16 | Reckoning with the Consequences | p. 301 |
Epilogue | p. 326 | |
Afterword | p. 335 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 345 | |
Notes | p. 351 | |
Bibliography | p. 371 | |
Index | p. 381 |