Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press
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Abstract
This book reveals 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, the authors 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, journalists reacted. Newspapers both reported on the Till investigation and editorialized on its protagonists. Within days, the Till case transcended the specifics of a murder in the Delta. Coverage wrestled with such complex cultural matters as the role of the press, class, gender, and geography in the determination of guilt and innocence. The book provides an examination of the courtroom testimony given in Sumner, Mississippi, and the trial’s conclusion as reported by the state’s newspapers. It closes with an analysis of how Mississippi has attempted to come to terms with its racially troubled past by, in part, memorializing Emmett Till in and around the Delta.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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“Sowing Seeds of Hatred”: (August 28–September 1)
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“Comely Carolyn”: (September 2–September 6)
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“Resentful of the Slant”: (September 7–September 9)
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“The World Is Watching”: (September 10–September 18)
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“Every Last Anglo-Saxon One of You”: (September 19–September 23)
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“Forgotten as Quickly as Possible”? (September 24–September 30)
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“Like Father—Like Son”: (October 1955–January 1956)
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Retrospective Prospects
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End Matter
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