Mamie Till-Mobley

A memoir by the mother of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager whose 1955 kidnapping and murder ignited the civil rights movement, describes her feelings about the crime, her despair over the acquittal of the two white accused killers, and her personal struggle to overcome her grief to become a teacher and source of inspiration for hundreds of children. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.