# Mississippi Trial, 1955

**Author:** Chris Crowe
**Grade range:** Grades 6–9
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2002
**Page count:** 231
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780803727458`
**ISBN-10:** `0803727453`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/mississippi-trial-1955
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager from Chicago, was unused to the mores of the segregated South. While visiting his uncle in the summer of 1955, he allegedly made flirtatious remarks to a white woman. A few days later Emmett was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Although the white murderers were tried and acquitted, they later bragged publicly about the crime.Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a gripping, fictionalized account of this infamous event, which prompted a national outcry at the time, and served as one of the triggers for the Civil Rights Movement.

## Themes

- race relations
- fathers and sons
- racism
- grandfathers

## Where this book is assigned

### Nebraska Golden Sower Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2005 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2005 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2005 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)
- **recommended** · 9th grade · Nebraska — [source: Nebraska Library Association — Golden Sower Award past winners, 2005 winner (Novel)](https://nlc.nebraska.gov/Youth/GoldenSowerPastWinnersandNominees.pdf)

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