Emmett Till The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till the fourteenyearold African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. Anderson utilizes documents that had never been available to previous researchers such as the trial transcript longhidden depositions by key players in the case and interviews given by Carolyn Bryant to the FBI in 2004 her first in fifty years as well as other recently revealed FBI documents. Anderson also interviewed family members of the accused killers most of whom agreed to talk for the first time as well as several journalists who covered the murder trial in 1955.Tillamp39s death and the acquittal of his killers by an allwhite jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change. Andersonamp39s exhaustively researched book is also the basis for HBOamp39s miniseries produced by JayZ Will Smith Casey Affleck Aaron Kaplan James Lassiter Jay Brown Ty Ty Smith John P. Middleton Rosanna Grace David B. Clark and Alex Foster which is currently in active development.For six decades the Till story has continued to haunt the South as the lingering injustice of Tillamp39s murder and the aftermath altered many lives. Fifty years after the murder renewed interest in the case led the Justice Department to open an investigation into identifying and possibly prosecuting accomplices of the two men originally tried. Between 2004 and 2005 the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the first real probe into the killing and turned up important information that had been lost for decades. Anderson covers the events that led up to this probe in great detail