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Writing to save a life : The Louis Till file
Title:
Writing to save a life : The Louis Till file
ISBN:
9781501147289
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
193 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Louis Till -- The file -- Graves.
Genre:
Summary:
In 1955, Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi because he was a colored boy who had, allegedly, whistled at a white woman. Wideman examines this death with that of Emmett's father, Louis Till, who was executed by the U.S. Army in 1945 in Italy, after being found guilty of murder and rape. The result is a conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons.
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