02525cam a2200361 i 4500 613339757 TxAuBib 20230123120000.0 221129s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022037739 9780593134269 HRD 28.99 0593134265 HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Parker, Wheeler, 1939-, author. A few days full of trouble [BOOK] : revelations on the journey to justice for my cousin and best friend, Emmett Till / Reverend Wheeler Parker, Jr. and Christopher Benson. First edition. New York : One World, 2023. xix, 391 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was fourteen years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the Civil Rights Movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the event remain distorted by time and too many tellings. What does justice mean in the resolution of a cold case spanning nearly seven decades? In A Few Days Full of Trouble, this question drives a new perspective on the story of Emmett Till, relayed by his cousin and best friend—the Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., a survivor of the night of terror when young Emmett was taken from his family’s rural Mississippi Delta home in the dead of night. In a hypnotic interplay between uncovered facts and vivid recall, Rev. Parker offers an emotional and suspenseful page-turner, set against a backdrop of reporting errors and manipulations, racial reckoning, and political pushback—and he does so accompanied by never-before-seen findings in the investigation, the soft resurrection of memory, and the battle-tested courage of faith. Provided by publisher. 20230123. Till, Emmett 1941-1955. Parker, Wheeler 1939- Lynching Mississippi History 20th century. African Americans Crimes against Mississippi. Racism Mississippi History 20th century. Hate crimes Mississippi. United States Race relations History 20th century. Mississippi Race relations. Benson, Chris, 1953-