Mississippi Trial, 1955
Narrator: Victor Bevine
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grade 7 & Up
Ages: 12 and up
Release Date: January 08, 2019
6 Hours and 4 Minutes
List Price: $44
ISBN: 9780525628040
Categories:
Young Adult Fiction - People & Places - United States - African American & Black, Young Adult Fiction - Historical - United States - 20th Century, Young Adult Fiction - Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism
Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel. This gripping story is based on the true events of the murder of Emmett Till, one of the nation's most notorious crimes that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
At first Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer. Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place." When Emmett's tortured dead body is found floating in a river, Hiram is determined to find out who could do such a thing. But what will it cost him to know?
At first Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer. Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place." When Emmett's tortured dead body is found floating in a river, Hiram is determined to find out who could do such a thing. But what will it cost him to know?
