The lynching of Emmett Till : a documentary narrative

The lynching of Emmett Till : a documentary narrative / edited by Christopher Metress.

On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and killed. With a collection of more than 100 documents, Metress retells Till's story in a unique and daring way--juxtaposing news accounts and investigative journalism with memoir...

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Other Authors: Metress, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002.
Series:American South series.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
Milam, J. W. > Trials, litigation, etc.
Lynching > Mississippi > History > 20th century > Sources.
African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi > History > 20th century > Sources.
Racism against Black people > Mississippi > History > 20th century > Sources.
Trials (Murder) > Mississippi.
Mississippi > Race relations > Sources.
History.
Sources.

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245 0 4 |a The lynching of Emmett Till :  |b a documentary narrative /  |c edited by Christopher Metress. 
260 |a Charlottesville :  |b University of Virginia Press,  |c 2002. 
300 |a xii, 360 pages ;  |c 24 cm. 
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490 1 |a The American South series 
500 |a Includes index. 
505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Discovery and indictment. Two white men charged with kidnaping negro /  |r Delta Democrat-Times --  |t Parents and relatives keep silent in case of boy charged with ugly remarks to storekeeper's wife /  |r Jackson Advocate --  |t Muddy river gives up body of brutally slain negro boy /  |r Memphis Commercial Appeal --  |t Designed to inflame /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Mississippi notebook : our state a target for hate campaign /  |r Tom Ethridge, Jackson Daily News --  |t Lynch-murder aids enemies of the South /  |r Atlanta Constitution --  |t Blood on their hands /  |r Chicago Defender --  |t End the racist conspiracy! /  |r Daily Worker --  |t Meddling in local case creates problems /  |r Greenwood Morning Star --  |t Mother's tears greet son who died a martyr /  |r Mattie Smith Colin, Chicago Defender --  |t Mother waits in vain for her "Bo" /  |r Mattie Smith Colin and Robert Elliott, Chicago Defender --  |t 50,000 mourn at bier of lynched negro child /  |r Carl Hirsch, Daily Worker -- "Were never into meanness" says accused men's mother /  |r Memphis Commercial Appeal --  |t Charleston Sheriff says body in river wasn't young Till /  |r Memphis Commercial Appeal --  |t Grand jury gets case : troops posted in delta as mob violence feared in aftermath to slaying /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Lynching post-facto /  |r Delta Democrat-Times --  |t Bad news for NAACP /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Mississippi notebook : our people have behaved mighty well /  |r Tom Ethridge, Jackson Daily News. 
505 0 0 |g 2.  |t The Trial. Day one, Monday, September 19. Jury selection reveals death demand unlikely /  |r John Herbers (UPI), Jackson State Times --  |t Jim Crow Press at Till Trial /  |r L. Alex Wilson, Chicago Defender --  |t Wives serious, children romp as trial begins /  |r James Gunter, Memphis Commercial Appeal --  |t The baby sitter /  |r Murray Kempton, New York Post. Day two, Tuesday, September 20. Lynched boy's mother sees jurymen picked /  |r Rob F. Hall, Daily Worker --  |t Jokes, threats are blended at tension-packed Sumner /  |r James Gunter, Memphis Commercial Appeal --  |t Grandstand play again /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Roman Circus /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Judge Swango is good promoter for South /  |r Harry Marsh, Delta Democrat-Times --  |t Heart of Darkness /  |r Murray Kempton, New York Post. Day three, Wednesday, September 21. He went all the way /  |r Murray Kempton, New York Post --  |t Uncle of Till's identifies pair of men who abducted Chicago negro /  |r Sam Johnson (AP), Greenwood Commonwealth --  |t Slain boy's uncle identifies Bryant, Milam on stand /  |r Ralph Hutto, Jackson State Times --  |t Mother, "Surprise Witness" give dramatic testimony : Mamie Bradley says corpse was that of her slain son [part 2] /  |r Ralph Hutto, Jackson State Times. Day four, Thursday, September 22. Mother, "Surprise Witness" give dramatic testimony : Mamie Bradley says corpse was that of her slain son [part 1] /  |r Ralph Hutto, Jackson State Times --  |t The future /  |r Murray Kempton, New York Post --  |t Mother insulted on witness stand /  |r Washington Afro-American --  |t Youth puts Milam in Till death barn /  |r James L. Hicks, Washington Afro-American --  |t Judge sends jury out of courtroom during testimony of defendant Roy Bryant's wife /  |r Jackson State Times --  |t Mrs. Bryant tells how northern negro grabbed her, "wolf-whistled" in store /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Woman in lynching case weaves fantastic story /  |r Washington Afro-American --  |t Sheriff Strider's testimony raises doubt body in river was Till youth /  |r Jackson Daily News. Day five, Friday, September 23. Jury hears defense and prosecution arguments as testimony ends in kidnap-slaying case /  |r Sam Johnson (AP), Greenwood Commonwealth --  |t Called lynch-murder, "Morally, Legally" wrong /  |r Cleveland Call and Post --  |t Defendants receive handshakes, kisses /  |r James L. Kilgallen (INS), Memphis Commercial Appeal --  |t 2 face trial as "whistle" kidnappers--due to post bond and go home /  |r Murray Kempton, New York Post --  |t Mississippi jungle law frees slayers of child /  |r James L. Hicks, Cleveland Call and Post. 
505 0 0 |g 3.  |t Post-trial reactions and assessments. Fair trial was credit to Mississippi /  |r Greenwood Morning Star --  |t Acquittal /  |r Delta Democrat-Times --  |t Verdict at Sumner /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Letter to the editor /  |r Chester Himes, New York Post --  |t Shame of our nation /  |r Daily Worker --  |t State of Mississippi still carries the burden /  |r Atlanta Constitution --  |t Justice in Sumner /  |r Dan Wakefield, The Nation --  |t Langston Hughes wonders why no lynching probe /  |r Langston Hughes, Chicago Defender --  |t Till case verdict /  |r Jackson Advocate --  |t What you can do about the disgrace in Sumner /  |r Chicago Defender --  |t Careful, last look /  |r Jackson Daily News --  |t Double murder in Mississippi /  |r Christian Century --  |t Southern style /  |r Roi Ottley, Chicago Defender --  |t Press Release, Office of the Honorable Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. --  |t I think the Till jury will have uneasy conscience /  |r Eleanor Roosevelt, Memphis Press-Scimitar --  |t Whose circus? /  |r Delta Democrat-Times --  |t Memo from the American Jewish Committee on European reaction to the Till case, 7 October 1955 --  |t Selected letters to the editor from the Washington Afro-American --  |t From the Baltimore Afro-American --  |t From the Cleveland Call and Post --  |t From the Memphis Commercial Appeal --  |t From the Atlanta Constitution. 
505 0 0 |g 4.  |t Searching for the truth. James L. Hicks's "Inside story" of the Emmet Till trial (series from Cleveland Call and Post). Sheriff kept key witness hid in jail during trial --  |t White reporters doublecrossed probers seeking lost witnesses --  |t Mississippi lynching story : luring terrorized witnesses from the plantations was toughest job --  |t Jimmy Hicks tells Inside story of Imfamous Mississippi lynch case --  |t Defender tracks down mystery Till "witnesses" /  |r L. Alex Wilson, Chicago Defender --  |t Here is what "too tight" said /  |r Chicago Defender --  |t An open letter to U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover /  |r James L. Hicks, Washington Afro-American --  |t Emmett Till is alive /  |r American Anti-Communist Militia --  |t Shocking story of approved killing in Mississippi /  |r William Bradford Huie, Look --  |t What's happened to the Emmett Till killers /  |r William Bradford Huie, Look /  |r From Time Bomb : Mississippi exposed and the full story of Emmett Till /  |r Olive Arnold Adams. 
505 0 0 |g 5.  |t Memoirs. From "Mamie Bradley's untold story" /  |r Mamie Till Bradley, as told to Ethel Payne, Chicago Defender --  |t From Wolf whistle and other stories /  |r William Bradford Huie --  |t From For us, the living /  |r Mrs. Medgar Evers --  |t From Coming of age in Mississippi /  |r Anne Moody --  |t From Soul on ice /  |r Eldridge Cleaver --  |t From The River of no return : the autobiography of a black militant and the life and death of SNCC /  |r Cleveland Sellers, with Robert Terrell --  |t From My soul is rested : movement days in the Deep South remembered /  |r Ruby Hurley, interviewed by Howell Raines --  |t From "On being Black and middle class" /  |r Shelby Steele --  |t Remembering Emmett Till /  |r Michael Eric Dyson --  |t Growing up white in the South : an essay /  |r Lewis Nordan --  |t From Life on the color line : the true story of a white boy who discovered he was Black /  |r Gregory Howard Williams --  |t From Profiles in Black Courage /  |r Kareem Abdul-Jabbar --  |t The killing of black boys /  |r John Edgar Wideman. 
505 0 0 |g 6.  |t Literary explorations. Requiem for a fourteen-year-old /  |r Richard Davidson --  |t Mississippi-1955 /  |r Langston Hughes --  |t Money, Mississippi, Blues /  |r Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley --  |t Cause for justice /  |r Richard Davidson --  |t For Emmett Till /  |r Mary Parks --  |t Blood on Mississippi /  |r Ernest Wakefield Stevens --  |t Mississippi /  |r Martha Millet --  |t Tribute to Emmett Till /  |r Mary Carson Cooper --  |t For Moses Wright (Uncle of Emmett Louis Till) /  |r "I. S." --  |t Promotional flyer for "A good place to raise a boy" /  |r Wade Dente --  |t A Bronzeville mother loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile a Mississippi mother burns bacon /  |r Gwendolyn Brooks --  |t Last quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till /  |r Gwendolyn Brooks --  |t Death of Emmett Till /  |r Bob Dylan --  |t Note for Blues /  |r James Baldwin --  |t Till /  |r Julius E. Thompson --  |t Afterimages /  |r Audre Lorde --  |t Emmett Till /  |r Wanda Coleman --  |t From 1935 : a memoir /  |r Sam Cornish --  |t Emmett Till and the men who killed him /  |r June Akers Seese --  |t Lovesong of Emmett Till /  |r Anthony Walton --  |t Emmett Till /  |r Bryan Johnson --  |t Can I write of flowers? /  |r Jeanne Miller. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Money, Mississippi, and killed. With a collection of more than 100 documents, Metress retells Till's story in a unique and daring way--juxtaposing news accounts and investigative journalism with memoirs, poetry, and fiction. 
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