Introduction -- "Sowing seeds of hatred" (August 28-September 1) -- "Comely Carolyn" (September 2-September 6) -- "Resentful of the slant" (September 7-September 9) -- "The world Is watching" (September 10-September 18) -- "Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you" (September 19-September 23) -- "Forgotten as quickly as possible"? (September 24-September 30) -- "Like father like son" (October 1955-January 1956) -- Retrospective prospects
Summary
Employing never-before-used historical materials, the au-thors 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. Combing small-circulation weeklies as well as large-circulation dailies, Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy analyze the rhetoric at work as the state attempted to grapple with a brutal, small-town slaying. Initially coverage tended to be sympathetic to Till, but when the case became a clarion call for civil rights and racial justice in Mississippi, journa-lists react
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index
