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Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- The Ghost Of Emmett Till: Based On Real Life Events, A Civil Rights Primer by W. James Richardson explores the significant impact that 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till's death had in regard to the modern-day Civil Rights Movement, which makes this novel suitable for secondary and college students, as well as adults.
A good number of individuals aren't aware that Till's death so outraged citizens throughout the United States that it culminated into over 50,000 people viewing his gruesomely deformed body in his hometown of Chicago in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi while there on vacation; and was brutally murdered for the deed.
Many don't know that Rosa Parks garnered her courage to not vacate her seat on the Montgomery, Alabama bus because she was staunchly angry about Emmett Till's murder three months earlier. And it's conceivable that Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. would not have risen to prominence relative to the civil rights movement if it had not been for the execution of Emmett Till.
The Ghost Of Emmett Till explores these suppositions and edifyingly associates Till's death to the Montgomery bus boycott, student sit-ins demonstrations, and the courageous efforts of the Freedom Riders during the civil rights era. Hence, W. James Richardson's novel presents as a civil rights primer while it also entertains.
To examine more about this novel, visit www.wjamesrichardson.com where the first chapter can be read.
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