Book Review of A Death In The Delta:The Story of Emmett Till by Stephen J.Whitfield

        Slavery and Mississippi during the nineteenth and twentieth century went hand and hand. Along with this slavery came prejudice, bigots, racism, and perhaps the worst of all; lynching. Lynching was commonly accepted in the south during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Governors approved, sheriffs turned a blind eye, southern blacks accepted, and for the most part the rest of the United States ignored it. Lynching in the south was seen as check on …

…other blacks through education. Even whites in Mississippi who once supported lynching and segregation turned around and accepted blacks as humans and shunned Bryant and Milam forcing them to leave the State. The advancement of blacks in the United States can be directly attributed to the Till case. To bad it took a death of Chicago youth in Mississippi to wake the nation after sleeping through years of prejudice and of southern blacks being lynched.