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Only weeks later
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Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis
And then one day
perseverance
The Blood of Emmett Till new Only weeks laterIn 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen year old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Black students who called themselves the Emmett
