A fourteen year old boy from Chicago and his cousin go to Mississippi to visit family and work on the farm for a short vacation in August of 1955. When Emmitt dares to treat Southern-White Folk the same way he treats Whites in Chicago, he crosses a line that is a catalyst to the Civil Rights Movement. In this biography, Chris Crowe takes you through the events and details of before Emmitt was kidnapped and after the trial of the murder of Emmitt Till.
This was an incredibly well written biography and I will probably use it in some future class of mine. I thought it would be boring and I thought that I would really struggle to understand the facts and what had happened, but the story was very concise and to the point. It didn't embellish any part of the events that took place and handled the event in a very respectful way. It was careful to represent the details in a truthful and un-biased manner. I really enjoyed reading the writing style of the author and learned a lot about the events surrounding the Emmitt Till trial of 1955.
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