Summary Of Mississippi Trial By Chris Crowe

Ian Cabarcas
Mrs. Teuscher
English 10
October 19 2014
Mississippi Trial: 1955 The author, Chris Crowe, wrote a historical fiction novel titled, Mississippi Trial 1955, which took place in Greenwood, MISS. In the story, Hiram Hilburn goes to spend summer vacation with his Grandfather in Greenwood, Mississippi. The main story of the book is the murder of Emmett Till, and the trial that occurs after.

Father and son relationships are a huge theme in this book. At the beginning of the book, the main character Hiram Hillburn, doesn’t exactly see eye to eye with his father. But throughout the progression of the book, he begins to understand that his father has very good reasons for why he didn’t want Hiram to go back to Greenwood. Harlan Hillburn (Hiram’s father) also doesn’t get along with his father Earl Hillburn. In the book Earl Hillburn said, “your daddy, you can’t be like your daddy” (Crowe 138) to his grandson Hiram. I think that was because he didn’t want to lose his grandchild like he lost his dad, which he had had a part in. I believe that I have the same relation with my dad, and he with his, because neither of us every really understand each other and when I believe that it would benefit both of us is he would explain himself further, he chooses not to

At the trials, the whole courtroom was packed, mostly whites attended but there was a section in the very back of the room for colored citizens. The two men that were being accused for the murder, didn’t even seem to sweat the fact that they were being tried for murder because the jury was all white and had been told to say that their verdict was, not guilty. So the trials didn’t do much, but, word of the murder had spear throughout all of America, and people started to realize that, terrible things were happening in the south, more terrifying then what they had made themselves