Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
By Chris Crowe
Published by Dial Books 2003 120 pages
Genre: Biography, Prejudice and Racism, Race relations and Social Issues
Reading Level: Young Adult
Summary: This is factual account of brutal act that triggered the civil Rights movement. In 1955, Emmett Till, who was visiting his great-uncle in Money, Mississippi, was kidnapped and then brutally murdered because he was accused of whistling at and hitting on, a white woman. The woman's husband and half-brother were tried for the act but were acquitted by an all white jury.
Response: I think that this book was very well written, but I think that the subject is repulsive and outrageous that someone could get away with such an act because of the color of their skin.
Cautionary notes: Graphic pictures, and racism
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