Mississippi Trial 1955 written by Chris Crowe published by Speak in 2002. Hiram is a sixteen year old boy who goes to Mississippi to visit his grandfather. While there Hiram befriends Emmett Till a fourteen year old African American from Chicago also visiting family. After Emmett goes missing, Hiram realzies that the South isn't the way he remembers it, everything even the people have changed and not for the better. Now he struggles to do what he knows to be right and what soceity would have him do. A story filled mystery, brutal reality of how blacks were treated in the years prior to the Civil Rights Movement.
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