Writing for the magazines 'Jet' and 'Ebony' for 53 years, Simeon Booker was on the front lines of virtually every major event of the revolution that transformed America. The book begins with a massive voting rights rally in the Mississippi Delta town of Mound Bayou in 1955: before the next run of the weekly 'Jet', the killings would begin. Booker vowed that lynchings would no longer be ignored beyond the black press. When a boy was reported missing, he stayed on it, through one of the most infamous murder trials in U.S. history, his coverage of Emmett Till's death lighting a fire that would galvanise the movement.