03755nam 2200745 a 450 991111014840332120251117004023.01-282-48556-397866124855651-60473-304-7(CKB)1000000000721930(EBL)515530(OCoLC)317329290(SSID)ssj0000146038(PQKBManifestationID)11157334(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146038(PQKBWorkID)10183567(PQKB)11458476(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206525(MiAaPQ)EBC515530(MdBmJHUP)muse13659(Au-PeEL)EBL515530(CaPaEBR)ebr10282562(EXLCZ)99100000000072193020070410d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmmett Till and the Mississippi press /Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy ; foreword by Keith A. Beauchamp1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic20081 online resource (230 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-934110-15-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.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; IndexEmploying 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 reactAfrican AmericansCrimes againstPress coverageMississippiTrials (Murder)Press coverageMississippiSumnerAfrican AmericansCivil rightsPress coverageMississippiJournalismPolitical aspectsMississippiHistory20th centuryRhetoricPolitical aspectsMississippiHistory20th centuryRacismMississippiHistory20th centuryPublic opinionMississippiHistory20th centuryMississippiRace relationsPress coverageMississippiRace relationsHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansCrimes againstPress coverageTrials (Murder)Press coverageAfrican AmericansCivil rightsPress coverageJournalismPolitical aspectsHistoryRhetoricPolitical aspectsHistoryRacismHistoryPublic opinionHistory364.1/34Houck Davis W1921004Grindy Matthew A1921005MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911110148403321Emmett Till and the Mississippi press4667021UNINA