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

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