A Death in the Delta
by Stephen J. Whitfield | 
Getting Away with Murder
by Chris Crowe | 
Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann | 
American Heiress
by Jeffrey Toobin | 
White Rage
by Carol Anderson | 
The Spy's Son
by Bryan Denson | 
Sin in the Second City
by Karen Abbott | 
Who Murdered Chaucer?
by Terry Jones | 
H. H. Holmes
by Hourly History | 
The Map Thief
by Michael Blanding | 
The Year of Fear
by Joe Urschel | 
Honor Thy Father
by Gay Talese | 
Archie and Amelie
by Donna M. Lucey | 
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson | 
Coming of Age in Mississippi
by Anne Moody | 
Barracoon
by Zora Neale Hurston |
Bound for the Promised Land
by Kate Clifford Larson | 
Ready for Revolution
by Stokely Carmichael | 
Oscar Micheaux
by Patrick McGilligan | 
The Fires of Jubilee
by Stephen B. Oates |
This reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves "the Emmett Till generation" launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till's lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history.