Dark nonfiction book club is a new book discussion group for the morbidly curious. We will explore dark topics such as true crime, natural disasters, war stories, death and dying, man-made disasters, forensic science, burial and funerary practices, and cults. 

Wednesday, March 5 at 6:30pm. We will be discussing: The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson.

“In 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 Till generation” launched sit-in campaigns that turned the struggle for civil rights into a mass movement. Till’s lynching became the most notorious hate crime in American history. But what actually happened to Emmett Till–not the icon of injustice, but the flesh-and-blood boy?”

Multiple copies are available at the service desk.
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