1921-2003

"The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.

Shares the story of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American beaten and lynched in 1955 due to American racism.

A comprehensive account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago lynched for a flirtation with a white woman at a country store in the Mississippi Delata.

A biography of Bill Mauldin, a World War II-era cartoonist who captured the experience of theAmerican citizen soldier through his work for "Stars and Stripes" and other publications, much of it done while serving in combat, drawing from his private papers, correspondence, and original art to shed light on Mauldin's complex personality and multiple talents.