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The Ghost of Emmett Till: Based On Real Life Events. A
Civil Rights Primer by W. James Richardson explores the
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significant impact that 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till’s death
had in regard to the modern-day civil rights movement,
which makes this novel suitable for secondary and college
Real Life Events,
Rights Primer
students, as well as adults.
A good number of individuals aren’t aware that Till’s death
so outraged citizens throughout the United States that it
culminated into over 50.000 people viewing his gruesomely
deformed body in his hometown of Chicago in 1955 after he
allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi while
there on vacation: and was brutally murdered for the deed.
Many don’t know that Rosa Parks garnered her courage
to not vacate her seat on the Montgomery, Ala. bus because
she was staunchly angry about Emmett Till's murder three
months earlier.
And it's conceivable that Rosa Parks and Martin Luther
King Jr. would not have risen to prominence relative to the
civil rights movement if it had not been for the execution of
Emmett Till.
The Ghost of Emmett Till explores these suppositions and
edilyingly associates Till's death to the Montgomery bus boycott,
student sit-ins demonstrations, and the courageous efforts of the
Freedom Riders during the civil rights era.
Double Whammy
of Race and Gender
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Single black
women fare
worse on wealth
For households headed by
white single men with children,
the median wealth (excluding the
value for vehicles owned) was
$43, 800. For blacks, the figure
was $7.900.
A new survey shows that single
But the racial differences were
black women have median wealth even larger for households headed
of only $100. This is a tiny frac­ by single women. The median
tion of the median wealth of single wealth for households headed by
white women.
single white women (again, ex­
Studies of wealth are difficult cluding the value for vehicles
to undertake and the Census Bu­ owned) was $41,500. For blacks,
reau attempts this research infre­ the median wealth was only $ 100.
quently. Census data for 2002 Some 46 percent of black house­
showed a median net worth of holds headed by single women
$87,056 for white families and had negative net worth.
$5,446 for black families. Over
Homeownership is one of the
the past generation, various stud­ largest components of family
ies have shown that black fami­ wealth. Only one third of single
lies on average have mean net black women own their home.
wealth that is about one tenth the For single white women, 57 per­
figures for white families.
cent own their home.
Now a new study by the Cen­
This data on the very small level
ter for Community Economic De­ of wealth among single black
velopment in Oakland, Calif, pre­ women is of particular importance
sents some shocking statistics. because 36 percent of all African
In 2007 married black families Americans reside in families headed
had median wealth of $46, 900. by a single woman. In contrast,
For married white families, the only 9.5 percent of all non-His­
median net wealth was close to panic whites live in families headed
$200,000.
by a single white woman.