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The barn : the secret history of a murder in Mississippi / Wright Thompson.
"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593299821 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 430 pages : maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2024.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Genre: | True crime stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 364.13409762 Tho | 31681010394385 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Recounting one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American historyâthe 1955 murder and torture of Emmett Till, a Black boy barely in his teens, in barn in Money, Mississippi, this story about property, money, power and white supremacy is still ongoing and implicates all of us. Maps. - Baker & Taylor
"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"-- - Penguin Putnam
The instant New York Times bestseller ⢠Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, TIME, Buzzfeed, Smithsonian, BookPage, KCUR, Kirkus, and Boston Globe ⢠Nominated for a PEN America Literary Award
âIt literally changed my outlook on the world…incredible.â âShonda Rhimes
"The Barn is serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel… The Barn describes not just the poison of silence and lies, but also the dignity of courage and truth.â â The Washington Post
âThe most brutal, layered, and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read…Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this.â âKiese Laymon
âAn incredible history of a crime that changed America.â âJohn Grisham
"With integrity, and soul, Thompson unearths the terrible how and why, carrying us back and forth through time, deep in Mississippiâbaring sweat, soil, and heart all the way through.â âImani Perry
A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare the long lead-up to the crime and how the truth was hidden for so long
In summer 1955, two men, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were charged with the torture and murder of the fourteen-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi, and acquitted in a mockery of justice, leaving behind an ink cloud of a false confession. In The Barn, Wright Thompson reveals the true nature and location of the long night of hell that August: inside the barn of one of the killers, within the six-square-mile grid whose official name is Township 22 North, Range 4 West,
Section 2, West Half, fabled in the Delta of myth as the birthplace of the blues, and twenty-three miles from Thompsonâs own family farm.
Wright Thompson has a deep, local understanding of this storyâthe world of the families of both Emmett Till and his killers, the historical forces that brought them together in the same place, and how the crime came to loom so large. Putting the killing floor of the barn on the map of West Half, and the Delta, and America, is a way onto the road this country must travel if we are to heal our oldest, deepest wound.
