TL: Having your debut novel, Mississippi trial, 1955, win the International Reading Association's Children's Book Award must have been thrilling and a bit daunting. Older readers may appreciate the beautiful, intricate sonnets in Marilyn Nelson's A Wreath for Emmett Till.We had the chance recently to converse about his debut novel and his other work in the field of YA literature,
Pair any of these with the nonfiction book to show different approaches to the same subject. Crowe has also written a novel, Mississippi 1955, that tells the story of Till’s murder and trial through the viewpoint of a white teenager. Black-and-white photographs, a timeline, lists of further reading and websites, and a bibliography enrich the book.įiction, Poetry, & Drama Tie-ins: Crowe lists several responses in art to the Till story: plays by Toni Morrison and James Baldwin, a Bob Dylan song, and a Gwendolyn Brooks poem. The country’s stunned reaction to the photographs of Till’s body and the unjust trial come across as well. Board of Education was decided, and at a time when blacks and women could not serve on Mississippi juries. It sets the murder and trial in context, shortly after Brown v. The straightforward writing lets facts and quotes speak for themselves. Crowe conveys the vicious prejudice and the sense of white superiority that led to Till’s death. Having allegedly called a white woman “baby,” he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by local white men.
This painful but important story concerns Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago, visiting his relatives in small-town Mississippi in 1955. The murder of Emmett Till and the trial in which his killers, who later confessed, were acquitted had a profound effect on the Civil Rights Movement. He was born in 1941 and killed on August 28th, 1955. Lexile 1210.Įmmett Till would have been 74 this year. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case.
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