Eight Retrospective Prospects
With the gallons of ink spilled in Mississippi on the Emmett Till case, it is easy to forget that it all started with some playful adolescent boasts among friends and family on a hot summer evening near a ribbon of road in a nowhere southern town. It is also easy to forget the awful tragedy that ensued: turning Emmett Till into an object of discourse is to transform him into something more and something less than what he was. He was a slightly heavy fourteen-year-old boy who looked forward to the eighth grade, loved baseball, nice clothes, his adoring mother
Chapter, 2008