Darryl Mace
1) In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle
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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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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 the crime in an interview
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