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Book SynopsisThough they were acquitted, these same defendants were soon being ostracized by their own neighbors, and within four months of Till's death, Southern blacks were staging the historic Montgomery bus boycott-the first major battle in the coming war against racial injustice that would lead to the passage of civil rights legislation a decade later.
Trade ReviewTill's sensational case, succinctly reported here, imparted a crucially vital impulse to the civil rights movement of the '60s. Publishers Weekly Whitfield... is able to write with power, strength, and persuasion. -- Raymond T. Diamond American Journal of Legal History
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. The Ideology of Lynching
Chapter 2. Chicago Boy
Chapter 3. Trial by Jury
Chapter 4. The Shock of Exoneration
Chapter 5. Washington, D.C.
Chapter 6. Revolution
Chapter 7. Race and Sex
Chapter 6. No Longer White
Notes
Bibliography
Index
