Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
by Chris Crowe
Published by Dial Books (2003)
121 pages; ages 13+

Synopsis: Told with pictures and real accounts, this is the true story of Emmett Till's murder trial that piloted the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Fourteen-year-old Emmett is dragged from his uncle's house one night by two white men. Three days later, his dead, mangled body is found in a river. The white men are not justly punished for their crimes, which sets of a sensation in the news as a great battle of race and discrimination.

Genre: Violence; Multicultural; History; Nonfiction/Biography

Warning: graphic descriptions, racial themes, a disturbing image

Recommendations: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton; Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe; A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson