A Death in the Delta by Stephen J Whitfield
Though they were acquitted, these same defendants were soon being ostracized by their own neighbors, and within four months of Till's death, Southern blacks were staging the historic Montgomery bus boycott-the first major battle in the coming war against racial injustice that would lead to the passage of civil rights legislation a decade later.
Till's sensational case, succinctly reported here, imparted a crucially vital impulse to the civil rights movement of the '60sPublishers Weekly Whitfield... is able to write with power, strength, and persuasion. -- Raymond T. Diamond American Journal of Legal History
Stephen J. Whitfield is the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University. He is the author of A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald and The Culture of the Cold War.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801843266 |
| ISBN 10 | 080184326X |
| Title | A Death in the Delta |
| Author | Stephen J Whitfield |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1991-12-27 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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