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Title Writing to save a life : the Louis Till file / John Edgar Wideman.
Author Wideman, John Edgar, author.
Publisher New York : Scribner, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Description 193 pages ; 22 cm
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
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 SH-Adult-Mezzanine  BIOGRAPHY TILL W Nearby on shelf  30652005057569 12-30-23  AVAILABLE
Summary "An award-winning writer traces the lesser-known story of Louis Till, the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmet Till, tying their fates together to reveal how the father was wrongly convicted for rape and murder before being executed by the Army a decade before his son's murder." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Till, Louis, 1922-1945 -- Death and burial.
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Death and burial.
Wideman, John Edgar.
United States. Army. Transportation Command. Battalion, 379th. Company, 177th -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Biography.
African American soldiers -- Biography.
War crimes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Italy.
African American men -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genre Biographies.
Other title Louis Till file
ISBN 9781501147289
1501147285
9781501147289