A riveting fictionalized account of an actual event, as told from the perspective of a white teenage boy who discovers the evils of racism, recreates the brutal murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy accused of flirting with a white woman, and the trial that ensued, leading [...]
When fourteen-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago to visit family in a small town in Mississippi and was soon murdered for whistling at a white woman, a series of events took place that changed the ways of the south and the nation forever.[...]