In Remembrance of Emmett Till

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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...

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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...

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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9780813145372
  • Publication Date: 15 Jul 2014
  • Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM