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

A JANE ADDAMS BOOK AWARD HONOR BOOK • An in-depth examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a hate crime that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement and continues to teach Americans about the urgent need for equal rights—updated and revised with a new chapter.

“Crowe pays powerful tribute to a boy whose untimely death spurred a national chain of events.”—Publishers Weekly

In August 1955, a group of white men kidnapped and brutally murdered a fourteen-year-old boy in the Mississippi Delta. W...