Susan Klopfer


Biography

Susan Klopfer of Gallup, New Mexico has worked as a journalist in Texas and Missouri where she won state newspaper awards for investigative reporting. A former acquisitions and development editor for Prentice Hall, she is the author of Abort! Retry! Fail!, a Book of the Month Club alternate selection. Susan is a graduate of Hanover College and Indiana Wesleyan University. While living in the Mississippi Delta, she researched and wrote two books on the region's history, including a book on the murder of Emmett Till. She recently announced the publication of a new e-book, Cash In On Diversity; How Getting Along With Others Pays Off.

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Land of Emmett Till
While I was living in the Mississippi Delta, Emmett Till’s body was exhumed and examined by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as part of a halted attempt to investigate and finally close this famous civil rights cold case. Can you guess the names and faces in this video? Look for Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, Megar Evers, Dr. T.R.M. Howard -- who all tried to learn what had happened to the Chicago schoolboy who was murdered in the Mississippi Delta in August of 1955.

Books

Cash In On Diversity    by Susan Klopfer
Price: $0.99 USD. 32510 words. Published on May 31, 2011. Nonfiction.

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Cash In On Diversity; How Getting Along With Others Pays Off has been nominated for a Global eBook Award. Written for business people, educators, health workers, lawyers, ministers, engineers, computer experts, students and all others who want to do a better job of relating to each other in their daily lives. Storytelling approach. Includes a valuable glossary plus webinar script and more.
Who Killed Emmett Till?    by Susan Klopfer
Price: $0.99 USD. 67960 words. Published on January 5, 2010. Nonfiction.

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Susan Klopfer moved to the Mississippi Delta in 2003 as the Emmett Till cold case was re-opened by the FBI. Living at Parchman Penitentiary due to her husband's employment, a notorious compound with a fascinating history, she had the opportunity to take a fresh look at this civil rights ground-breaking event and to meet some of the people who still had the story fresh in their hearts and minds.

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