George Cochrane

The horrors of lynching: The Trees, by Percival Everett, reviewed

Everett revisits the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 and dispenses the justice never done in Mississippi at the time

Emmett Till, the boy brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman. [Getty Images]

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