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Author

Wideman, John Edgar, author.

Title Writing to save a life : the Louis Till file / John Edgar Wideman.

Publisher

New York : Scribner, 2016.

Location	Call No.	Status	Message
Locke Branch Adult	364.152 Wid	AVAILABLE	---

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Edition	First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description	193 pages ; 22 cm
Local Note	rw
Contents	Louis Till -- The file -- Graves.
Summary	Traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till - a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett’s murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black intellectuals of our time.
Subject	Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Death and burial.
	Wideman, John Edgar.
	United States. Army. Transportation Command. Battalion, 379th. Company, 177th -- Biography.
	Till, Louis, 1922-1945 -- Death and burial.
Subject(S)	World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Biography.
	African American soldiers -- Biography.
	War crimes -- Italy -- Civitavecchia.
	War crimes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy.
	African American men -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Biographies.
ISBN	9781501147289 (hardcover)
	1501147285 (hardcover)