Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a historical fiction young adult novel by American author Chris Crowe, published in 2002.

The novel received mixed, but mostly positive reviews and won the International Reading Association Children's Book Award for Young Adult Fiction in 2003. in 1955, Hiram Hillburn, a sixteen-year-old white male, lives in [Arizona] with his father.

Despite his father's concerns about letting him go due to the racial tensions in the city, Hiram is given permission to spend the summer visiting his grandfather in Mississippi.

At the train station he meets his grandfather's housekeeper Ruthanne and her visiting cousin Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago.

Emmett is reported missing shortly after and his corpse is found in the river a few days later with a cotton gin pulley around his neck.

Hiram delays his trip home to serve as a witness for the trial due to the information he had told the police.

Author Chris Crowe was unfamiliar with the Emmett Till case before researching for his book Presenting Mildred D. Taylor.

"[2] Publishers Weekly called the novel a "promising debut" and that although "the conclusion feels a little hasty, Crowe's otherwise measured treatment will get readers thinking.