The Definitive Emmett Till: Passion and Battle of a Woman for Truth and Intellectual Justice

by Clenora Hudson-Weems

Book Overview

I met Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems in D. C. at the National Ford Annual Conference in 1987. She was one of the plenary speakers, rendering a most eloquent and engaging slide presentation on her groundbreaking thesis of Till as catalyst of the civil rights movement. It was astounding; I remember it as though it were yesterday. Clenora's work resonates with me to this day. At that moment, she resurrected and established Till as the beginning of the Movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1425939813
• ISBN13: 9781425939816
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Necessary text to study prejudice, discrimination and other

This text opens the eyes of the reader to the savagery and despicable cruelty of the lopsided South in the 1950's. How a world can be so tainted that it would demonize the human race with such an act. Killing of a child for this so-called crime denies the existence of the world God created where human beings are meant to co-exist regardless of color. Prejudice is learned; it cannot be natural. How can it be ?

shocking but necessary

I read this book as part of Dr. Robert Weem's Black History class at the University of Missouri and I was absolutely stunned. Being one of a very few white girls growing up on the border of Mexico, I thought I had experienced racism and prejudice, boy did I have a lot to learn. I was first shocked and then just out right embarrassed that anyone, but especially someone I share any similar characteristic with (white skin in this case) could so horribly murder a child. "OH MY GOD" I repeated to myself over and over again. "OH MY GOD."-the picture of that mutilated child will surely sicken the heart of anyone, especially a parent.I think anyone who has been disillusioned to believe that the old south (or the new south for that matter) was made up of free, happy black folks who were at last welcomed to white society at the abolition of slavery (or even in 1964 for what it is worth) needs to read this book and see the world without the rose colored glasses.A little hard to follow, this book doesn't flow like a John Grisham novel, but if you can get through the tedious facts (I know, I am part of that now-now generation) you will find a heart wrenching and mortifying story that will change the way you see white America and the poor hand it has dealt so many black people. Also very interesting...the dissention between Till's mother, uncle and the NAACP. I completely recommend this book to anyone interested in history, knowledge, and the truth.