Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 552 pages) : illustrations, map |
Series |
Race, Rhetoric, and Media |
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Race, Rhetoric, and Media
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Contents |
Part One. In black and white. Mother and son -- Mississippi welcomes Emmett Till -- Murder heard round the world -- Countdown -- Tallahatchie trial, Part 1 --Tallahatchie trial, Part 2 -- Protests, rumors, and revelations -- Clamor, conflict, and another jury -- The Look story and its aftermath -- Never the same -- Part Two. In living color. Revival -- Seeking justice in a new era -- The legacy of Emmett Till -- Epilogue: Seeing clearly -- Appendix: Piecing the puzzle |
Summary |
"Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. His death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement. Like no other event in modern history, the death of Emmett Till provoked people all over the United States to seek social change."--Publisher information |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
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Till-Mobley, Mamie, 1921-2003.
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SUBJECT |
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 fast |
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Till-Mobley, Mamie, 1921-2003 fast |
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Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi
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Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
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Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- Sumner
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Hate crimes -- Mississippi
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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African Americans -- Crimes against
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Hate crimes
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Lynching
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Race relations
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Racism
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Trials (Murder)
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Mississippi -- Race relations
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Mississippi
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Mississippi -- Sumner
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015, writer of foreword.
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LC no. |
2015010029 |
ISBN |
9781496802859 |
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1496802853 |
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9781496802897 |
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1496802896 |
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9781496802880 |
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1496802888 |
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