Remembering Emmett Till -- Book Giveaway and Signing

Join us for a book signing of Dave Tell's new book Remembering Emmett Till.  We'll be giving away 100 FREE copies of the book at this fascinating event!

Tell gives us five accounts of the commemoration of this infamous crime. He builds an insightful and persuasive case for how these memorials have altered the Delta’s physical and cultural landscape, drawing potent connections between the dawn of the civil rights era and our own moment of renewed fire for racial justice.

 "Tell has written the Emmett Till book still begging to be written.  The tragedy of this case gave it a place in history books, but its place in American memory was far more complicated.  Revisionist history is one thing; rewriting history is another.  Tell's arguement that race and geography were at the core of that rewriting makes for a compelling and confincing read.  As Tell shows, collective forgetting, willfully done, has created a new layer of tragedy to the Emmett Till Story."  Devery S. Anderson, author of Emmett Till: The Murder that Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement.