Few Days Full of Trouble

<b>The 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.</b> <p/><b><i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editors' 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</b> <p/> 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. <p/>What does justice mean in the resolution of a cold case spanning nearly seven decades? In <i>A Few Days Full of Trouble </i> 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. <p/>Rev. 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. <i>A Few Days Full of Trouble</i> 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.