Thomas, Angie: *1988
The Hate U Give, 2017 - Background
- Facts | Till Emmet | Oscar Grant | Tupack | Miscellania
- Facts
- Angie Thomas writes in her Author's Notes: "I came across his (Emmet Till's) photo in a Jet magazine that marked the anniversary of his death... What was supposed to be his face was mutilated beyond recognition ... But he was a person, a boy... But just like Emmett, I remember the first time I saw a video of Oscar Grant... Oscar did something to me. Emmett wasn't history. Emmett was reality. The video was shocking for multiple reasons, one being that someone actually caught it on tape...From all those questions and emotions, The Hate U Give was born".
- Till Emmet: 1941-1955
- Till Emmet
- The Photo That Changed the Civil Rights Movement. Time Magazine; July 10, 2016
- Image, photographed by David Jackson and first published in Jet magazine, with a stoic Mamie gazing at her murdered child’s ravaged body, which forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism.
- The Lost Story of Emmett Till: Then & Now. NBC
- Oscar Grant: 1986-2009
- Oscar Grant
- BART, mentioned in both videos below, stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a public transit system that connects the San Francisco Peninsula with communities in the East Bay and South Bay.
- Report On Oscar Grant Shooting on January 9, 2009
- New Details Revealed. CBS News; Februry 05, 2019
- Tupack (Shakur): 1971-1996
- Tupack is sometimes spellt 2pac.
- Tupack was a legendary rapper who inspired Angie Thomas
- Thug Life - In late 1993, Shakur formed the group Thug Life
- Tupac and The Hate U Give
- Tupac's poem 'The Rose That Grew From Concrete'. This poem can be seen as a metaphor for young people who grow up in bad situations but are still something to be in awe of. More poems.
- Hit Em Up
- Malcolm X. Mentioned in the novel.
