Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement by Devery S. Anderson; Foreward by Julian BondCall Number:

Publication Date: Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2017
Anderson utilizes documents that had never been available to previous researchers, such as the trial transcript, long-hidden depositions by key players in the case, and interviews given by Carolyn Bryant to the FBI in 2004 (her first in fifty years), as well as other recently revealed FBI documents. Anderson also interviewed family members of the accused killers, most of whom agreed to talk for the first time, as well as several journalists who covered the murder trial in 1955. Till's death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. This book will stand as the definitive work on Emmett Till for years to come.