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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782841303321

Autore

Houck Davis W

Titolo

Emmett Till and the Mississippi press [[electronic resource] /] / Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy ; foreword by Keith A. Beauchamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008

ISBN

1-282-48556-3

9786612485565

1-60473-304-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrindyMatthew A

Disciplina

364.1/34

Soggetti

African Americans - Crimes against - Press coverage - Mississippi

Trials (Murder) - Press coverage - Mississippi - Sumner

African Americans - Civil rights - Press coverage - Mississippi

Journalism - Political aspects - Mississippi - History - 20th century

Rhetoric - Political aspects - Mississippi - History - 20th century

Racism - Mississippi - History - 20th century

Public opinion - Mississippi - History - 20th century

Mississippi Race relations Press coverage

Mississippi Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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