The Blood of Emmett Till Literary Fiction and from receiving beatings from

and from receiving beatings from state troopers

demands her worth

with an irresistible offer

She felt like she had it all: a successful business

The Blood of Emmett Till Literary Fiction and from receiving beatings fromThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" ( The Atlantic). In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen year old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court