In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle

by Darryl Mace

On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally beaten to death for allegedly flirting with a white woman at a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were acquitted of murdering Till and dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River, and later that year, an all-white grand jury chose not to indict the men on kidnapping charges. A few months later, Bryant and Milam admitted to the crime in an interview...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813145368
• ISBN13: 9780813145365
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"