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 t...
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 t...
