Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

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Overview

Employing never-before-used historical materials, the authors 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, 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.

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press provides a careful examination of the courtroom testimony given in Sumner, Mississippi, and the trial's conclusion as reported by the state's newspapers. The book 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781604733044
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 09/18/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 234
File size: 370 KB

About the Author

Davis W. Houck is Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida State University. He is author of Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer and coeditor of Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965 and The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also the founder of the Emmett Till Archive at FSU and is partnering with the West Tallahatchie School District in the Mississippi Delta to bring Till-themed archival documents to high school students. Matthew A. Grindy is a doctoral candidate of communication at Florida State University.
Davis W. Houck is Fannie Lou Hamer Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida State University. He is author of Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer; coauthor of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press; and coeditor of Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1965 and The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is, all published by University Press of Mississippi. He is also the founder of the Emmett Till Archive at FSU and is partnering with the West Tallahatchie School District in the Mississippi Delta to bring Till-themed archival documents to high school students.

Keith A. Beauchamp, a filmmaker based in New York City, is the director of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.

Table of Contents

Foreword     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     3
"Sowing Seeds of Hatred" (August 28-September 1)     12
"Comely Carolyn" (September 2-September 6)     26
"Resentful of the Slant" (September 7-September 9)     44
"The World Is Watching" (September 10-September 18)     58
"Every Last Anglo-Saxon One of You" (September 19-September 23)     72
"Forgotten as Quickly as Possible"? (September 24-September 30)     107
"Like Father-Like Son" (October 1955-January 1956)     126
Retrospective Prospects     153
Notes     167
Works Cited     189
Index     207
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