In remembrance of Emmett Till [electronic resource] : regional stories and media responses to the Black freedom struggle / Darryl Mace.
"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 tha...
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Language: | English |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2014.
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In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.