1. Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson, Death of Innocence (One World Books, 2003), p. 99.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., p. 14.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 102.
6. Bob Dylan, “The Death of Emmett Till.”
7. Till-Mobley and Benson, Death of Innocence, p. 310.
8. “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi,” Look, January 24, 1956. The text has been amended to avoid the racist epithet Milam used for “those people.”
9. See Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2014).
10. “Mississippi Freedom Trail,” State of Mississippi tourism website, www.mississippi.org/mississippi-stories/mississippi-freedom-trail/ (accessed October 20, 2018).
11. “The Apology,” Emmett Till Interpretive Center, www.emmett-till.org (accessed October 20, 2018).
12. James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie (Vintage International Edition, 1995), p. xiv.
13. Christopher Benson, “The Image of Emmett Till,” New York Times, March 28, 2017.
14. See Jean Améry, “At the Mind’s Limits,” in At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities, trans. Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld (Indiana University Press, 1980).
15. Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (Liveright, 2018), p. 208.
16. Ibid., p. 327.
17. Ibid., p. 328.