In Remembrance of Emmett Till : Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle /

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"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...

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Main Author: Mace, Darryl, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955 > Death and burial > Press coverage.
Racism > Public opinion.
Race relations.
Public opinion.
Mass media > Political aspects.
Journalism > Political aspects.
African Americans > Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Discrimination & Race Relations.
African-American Studies.
Media Studies.
20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Opinion publique > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Racisme > États-Unis > Opinion publique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Presse > Aspect politique > Mississippi > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Lynchage > Couverture de presse > Mississippi.
Public opinion > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States > Public opinion > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Memorials > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Journalism > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mass media > Political aspects > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > Press coverage > Mississippi > Sumner.
Lynching > Press coverage > Mississippi.
United States.
Southern States.
Mississippi > Sumner.
Mississippi.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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