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

• Autore: Houck Davis W
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.1/34
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Mississippi Race relations Press coverage; Mississippi Race relations History 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GrindyMatthew A
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Emmett Till and the Mississippi press
• ISBN: 1-282-48556-3; 9786612485565; 1-60473-304-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454120003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II