Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

Clenora Hudson-Weems

9781425938796: Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425938795 ISBN 13: 9781425938796

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2006

Clenora Hudson-Weems, Ph.D., was the first to establish the position of the August 28, 1955, brutal lynching of Emmett Louis ?Bobo?Till, the 14-year-old Black Chicago youth, for whistling at a 21-year-old white woman (Carolyn Bryant) in Money, MS, as the catalyst of the Modern Civil Rights Movement. In her 1988 doctoral dissertation, ?Emmett Till: The Impetus for the Modern Civil Rights Movement? (U. of Iowa), later published as Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement (1994), she carefully documents the Till murder case as having set the stage for the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott, since it happened 3 months and 3 days before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus, December 1, 1955. A Ford Fellow, she quests for truth surrounding the underplaying of the case in American history, concluding that Parks? demonstration was more palatable than Till's bloated face, in spite of King's assertion in Stride Toward Freedom that pressed in the minds of the Alabamians during the boycott was the image of Till. Contending that ?Historians will talk about the good and the bad, but they won't deal with the ugly,? informant for her 1988 doctoral dissertation (U. of Iowa), Rayfield Mooty, Labor Union and Civil Rights activist who advised the mother, Mamie, during the ordeal, help to make the case a ?cause c?l?bre.?Many luminaries in the academy praised the author for her bold, brave stance regarding this case, including Yale University's late John Blassingame (?When you really think about it, Hudson-Weems is absolutely right.?); the late C. Eric Lincoln of Duke University (?In Emmett Till, she , , , challenges the most sacred shibboleths of the origins of the Civil Rights Movement.?); and Talmadge Anderson, founding editor of The Western Journal of Black Studies (?Hudson-Weems substantiates the real catalytic event that unleashed the long inhibited Black rebellion against the viciousness and brutality of White racism. . . . The l

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Synopsis:

It has always been said that truth will ultimately prevail. This three part book represents that truism. Part One presents the untainted facts surrounding the story of Emmett Till's brutal lynching and the establishment of that incident as the true catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s. Unearthing and establishing Till as catalyst found its beginnings over thirty years later, in the 1988 Ford Doctoral Dissertation, "Emmett Till: The Impetus of the Modern Civil Rights Movement," by this author at the University of Iowa. It speaks the truth about the seminal role of the innocent fourteen-year-old northern youth whose brief visit to Mississippi, the metaphor for American racism, rendered him the status of martyr for victims of centuries of abject racial oppression. Part Two presents the raison d'etre for the book, as it confronts and exposes the abominable acts of plagiarism by several people whose obvious goal is to acquire fame and fortune for themselves. Part Three highlights the continuing commitment to the struggle on the part of the author via demonstrating the Till Continuum, represented by modern day examples of Black victimization.The plight of Black farmers, who are losing 9,000 acres of land per week, and land owners in general, such as "Smokin' Joe" Frazier who lost 140 acres of prime property in Bucks County, PA valued at 100 million dollars, are supreme paradigms of this reality.

Thus, the injustices of robbing Black people and their future generations of their land legacy and the theft of the intellectual property of one who is dedicated to truth in its totality are the key elements in this book. Scholars, attorneys, celebrities, and many others have offered testimonies here, thereby rendering their dedication to bringing a halt once and for all to such pervasive injustices.

About the Author:

Clenora Hudson-Weems, Professor of English (UMC), received BA degree?LeMoyne College; MA degree?Atlanta U.; Ph.D. degree?U. of Iowa; Certificate of French Studies?L?Universit? de Dijon. She is the author of The Definitive Emmett Till: Passion and Battle of a Woman for Truth and Intellectual Justice, 2006; Africana Womanist Literary Theory, 2004; Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves, 1993; and co-author, with Wilfred D Samuels, of Toni Morrison, 1990. She has chapters/articles in Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition, 1997; Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies and A Historical and Bibliographical Guide to the African American Experience, 2000; State of the Race: Creating Our 21st Century, 2004; and Sisterhood, Feminisms and Power, 1998. She edited Contemporary Africana Theory and Thought: A Guide to Africana Studies (In Press) and was the guest editor for a special issue on ?Africana Womanism? for The Western Journal of Black Studies (fall 2001). In 1994, Kay Bonetti with The American Audio Prose Library, interviewed her on Emmett Till and Africana Womanism. Her current work is Emmett: Passion of a Black Woman, a feature-length movie script, with producer Barry Morrow, Oscar-winning co-writer for Rain Man. Her novel, Soul Mates, is forthcoming; latest passion is the plight of Black farmers and our land owners.

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