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

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 with the national media. They were never co

Author: Darryl Mace
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780813145365

About the Author

Darryl Mace is associate professor and chair in the Department of History and Political Science at Cabrini College. He lives in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

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