{"product_id":"a-few-days-full-of-trouble-revelations-on-the-journey-to-justice-for-my-cousin-and-best-friend-emmett-till","title":"A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe last surviving witness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with poignant recollections of Emmett as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for racial reckoning, both then and now.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice - \"In this moving and important book, the Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Benson give us a unique window onto the anguished search for justice in a case whose implications shape us still.\"--Jon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was lynched. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the Civil Rights Movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the event remain distorted by time and too many tellings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does justice mean in the resolution of a cold case spanning nearly seven decades? In \u003ci\u003eA Few Days Full of Trouble, \u003c\/i\u003e this question drives a new perspective on the story of Emmett Till, relayed by his cousin and best friend--the Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr., a survivor of the night of terror when young Emmett was taken from his family's rural Mississippi Delta home in the dead of night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRev. Parker offers an emotional and suspenseful page-turner set against a backdrop of reporting errors and manipulations, racial reckoning, and political pushback--and he does so accompanied by never-before-seen findings in the investigation, the soft resurrection of memory, and the battle-tested courage of faith. \u003ci\u003eA Few Days Full of Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful work of truth-telling, a gift to readers looking to reconcile the weight of the past with a hope for the future.\r","brand":"Wheeler Parker, Christopher Benson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44445394272492,"sku":"9780593134283","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593134283.jpg?v=1719075180","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/a-few-days-full-of-trouble-revelations-on-the-journey-to-justice-for-my-cousin-and-best-friend-emmett-till","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}