Mississippi Trial Sparknotes

Do you know what it was like to be of different color back in the day? In the book Mississippi Trial, 1955 it's about how a boy called Hiram was growing up in Greenwood Mississippi with his grandpa. When visiting his grandpa in Greenwood he meets a boy named Emmett. Emmet was a black kid growing up in a time when people of different colors were viewed differently. One day Hiram finds out that Emmet was killed by white men one night. After he finds out about the murder he goes to the trial and hopes for harsh punishment of the people who killed them. In the novel , Mississippi Trial, 1955, by Chris Crowe there are many conflicts between the main character and the society they’re in.

Body 1 During the time of when the book was written about, black people had a much harder life than white people had. In the book black people had nowhere near as much as white people had. For example in the book it stated that in the text it said “ Most colored schools are lucky to see 10 cents of every school

Throughout the story there were many times when black people were being forced or told to do something in the story and sometimes in the book if the black people did not listen in the book or the white person didn't like something about the black person then there was a fight or scuffle between a black and white person over something and sometimes they were even killed. For example In the text it talked about how a young black boy called Emmit Till was murdered for making “Ugly remarks' ' towards a white woman and was killed because of it.(Crowe 115)This goes to show how dangerous their life was. Also this scene helps show how bad life was for black people during that time period and proves the Man vs society problem.. Even the littlest thing a person might have done they could have had bad repercussions put on them just because of their