Mississippi trial, 1955

Title
Mississippi trial, 1955

Author
Crowe, Chris.

ISBN
9780142501924

Publication Information
New York : Speak/Penguin Group, 2003.

Physical Description
231 pages ; 17 cm

General Note
"First published in the United States of America by Phyllis Fogelman Books, an imprint of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002"--Title page verso.

Reading Level
870 L Lexile

Personal Subject
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955-Fiction.

Subject Term
Grandfathers -- Fiction.
 
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
 
Hate crimes -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
 
African American teenage boys -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
 
Racism -- Mississippi -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 1953-1961 -- Fiction.
 
Mississippi -- Race relations -- Fiction.

Summary
In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds boy himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)TEEN FICTION CROTeen Fiction
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)TEEN FICTION CROTeen Fiction
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)TEEN FICTION CROTeen Fiction