6/29/2023 0 Comments Death of innocence emmett tillOn August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Mississippi and killed. The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative Combing small-circulation weeklies as well as large-circulation dailies, Houck and Grindy analyze the rhetoric at work as the state attempted to grapple with a brutal, small-town slaying. The authors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder. Speaking out for the first time, Mamie Till-Mobley offers a memoir of the 1955 slaying of her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till-the teenager whose murder galvanized the civil rights movement. Alvin Sykes: Pursuit of Justice for Emmett Till, JBooksĭeath of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed Americaīy Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
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