This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. Format: Paperback Author: M. Susan Susan Orr-Klopfer ISBN10: 1411638433 ISBN13: 9781411638433 What happened to cause a young African American students lynching in the Mississippi Delta? When Emmett BoBo Till threatened Mississippis rigid Jim Crow laws this fourteen-year-old paid with his life. Tills murderers were set free yet his death spurred Rosa Parks to take her important stand in Montgomery. In this 50th anniversary the case has finally been reopened with new and intriguing information. How many people were involved? Who hid the killers overnight? Where is the first trials transcript? Learn new facts on this and other Delta murders - Clinton Melton and his wife 1955 - he was shot she was drowned; Jo Etha Collier 1955 gunned down on graduation night; attorney Cleve McDowell 1997 shot to death by a client? The Emmett Till Book gives readers a unique look at Mississippis secret government agencies and its private white Citizens Councils that spied and did harm to those who fought segregation.