1. Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (Laurel, 1976)
2. Harriet Pollack and Christopher Metress, eds., Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (Louisiana State Press, 2008)
3. Devery S. Anderson, Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement (University Press of Mississippi, 2015)
4. Dell Upton, What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South (Yale University Press, 2015)
5. Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon and Schuster, 2017)