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In remembrance of Emmett Till : regional stories and media responses to the Black freedom struggle /

On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally beaten to death for allegedly flirting with a white woman at a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were acquitted of murdering Till and dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River, and later that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mace, Darryl, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955 > Death and burial > Press coverage.
Lynching > Press coverage > Mississippi.
Trials (Murder) > Press coverage > Mississippi > Sumner.
Mass media > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Journalism > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Memorials > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States > Public opinion > History > 20th century.
Public opinion > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Emmett Till's America
  • August nights
  • Home going
  • "M is for Mississippi and murder"
  • Trial by print
  • Galvanizing the Emmett Till generation
  • In remembrance of Emmett Till.