"Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger."Those words, whispered to ten-year-old Tim Tyson by one of his playmates in the late spring of 1970, heralded a firestorm that would forever transform the small tobacco market town...

Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious h...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching o...