In Remembrance of Emmett Till

This provocative study explores how media coverage of Emmett Till''s murder influences regional reactions and reignited the Civil Rights movement.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 Till''s murder—then admitted to...