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Emmett Till and the Mississippi press / Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy ; foreword by Keith A. Beauchamp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houck, Davis W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Crimes against--Press coverage--Mississippi.
- African Americans.
- Trials (Murder)--Press coverage--Mississippi--Sumner.
- Trials (Murder).
- African Americans--Civil rights--Press coverage--Mississippi.
- Journalism--Political aspects--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Journalism.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Rhetoric.
- Racism--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Public opinion--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Public opinion.
- Mississippi--Race relations--Press coverage.
- Mississippi.
- Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955--Death and burial--Press coverage.
- Till, Emmett.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: "Sowing Seeds of Hatred" (August 28-September 1); Two: "Comely Carolyn" (September 2-September 6); Three: "Resentful of the Slant" (September 7-September 9); Four: "The World Is Watching" (September 10-September 18); Five: "Every Last Anglo-Saxon One of You" (September 19-September 23); Six: "Forgotten as Quickly as Possible"? (September 24-September 30); Seven: "Like Father-Like Son" (October 1955-January 1956); Eight: Retrospective Prospects; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48556-3
- 9786612485565
- 1-60473-304-7
- OCLC:
- 317329290
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