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Books By The Banks 2019

The 13th Annual Books By The Banks Cincinnati USA Book Festival will be held Saturday, October 26 the Duke Energy Convention Center in downtown Cincinnati. Along with more than 100 authors who will talk with patrons and sign copies of their books, there will be author panels and discussions; a kids zone and teen scene with a variety of activities and entertainment; sponsor tables; and an onsite bookstore from Joseph Beth Booksellers.Cincinnati Public Radio will have a table - stop by and say hi to the hosts and staff, sign-up to win a CD or other prize, and let us know what you think about our stations! This event is free to attend, and runs from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.More information can be found at booksbythebanks.org.91.7 WVXU is a proud media partner.We've had the opportunity to interview, or review, many of the authors you'll meet at this year's Books by the Banks . Here's a list if you'd like to hear from one of your favorites! BBTB 2019 AUTHORS WHO HAVE BEEN ON WVXU THIS YEARConnie Dow: From A to Z with Energy! 26 Ways to Move and PlayTerry Gamble: The EulogistJessica Strawser: Forget You Know MeAlexander Watson: Saucy Boat, Stout Mates, Spotted Dog, AmericaMargaret McMullan: Where The Angels LivedCandace Ganger: Six Goodbyes We Never SaidBook Review: Dan and Judy Dourson: Wildflowers and Ferns of Red River Gorge and the Greater Red River BasinJohn Kachuba: Shapeshifters: A HistoryDan Woellert: Cincinnati Goetta: A Delectable HistoryKaren Abbott: The Ghosts Of Eden ParkBook Review: Constance J. Moore and Nancy M. Broermann: Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and PresidentsPauletta Hansel:When She Was Done (a Mother's Day poem)Coal Town Photograph (Father's Day poems)Sherry Stanforth and Richard Hague: Riparian: Poetry, Short Prose, and Photographs Inspired by the Ohio River (airing on November 24)Rick Kennedy: 100 Years of Reimagining Flight (Cincinnati Edition)Jack Heffron: Classic Reds: The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Reds History (Cincinnati Edition)Michael Morgan: Cincinnati Beer (Cincinnati Edition)Greg Rhodes and John Erardi: Baseball Revolutionaries: How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Rocked the Country and Made Baseball Famous (Cincinnati Edition)David Bell: LayoverWilliam Plunkett: The G-Men and the Nurse: A 1929 Washington Cold CaseJillian Scudder: Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree (Looking Up podcast)

A Talk With The Author Of 'Let The People See: The Story Of Emmett Till'

91.7 WVXU | By Dan Hurley

Published January 21, 2019 at 4:00 AM EST

let the people see emmett till — Elliott Gorn explores how and why the story of Emmett Till still resonates in America, and always will.

Between 1882 and 1968, the NAACP documented 4,743 lynchings in the United States. All were abhorrent, but none was more socially and politically impactful than the lynching of Emmett Till.

Born in Chicago to parents who had moved north from the Mississippi Delta as part of the Great Migration, Till was 14 in 1955. That summer, he accompanied his uncle on a trip to visit his extended family in Money, Miss.

An encounter in a store one evening quickly spun out of control, stirring the local, self-appointed protectors of white supremacy to seize Till in the middle of the night, lynch him and throw his body into a local river.

Till’s grief-stricken mother, though horrified at the condition of her son’s body, insisted on a coffin that allowed mourners to see what racism did to her child.

The murder of Emmett Till, the events around his funeral and the legacy it created are explored by Loyola University historian, Elliot Gorn in his new book Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till.

Elliot Gorn was in Cincinnati last November for an event at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. While he was in town, he took time to talk about Emmett Till with Cincinnati Edition.

Tune in to Cincinnati Edition Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. to hear this segment.