2008, ISBN: 9781934110157

Buch, Hardcover, Employing never-before-used historical materials, the au-thors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped publi… Meer...

Buch, Hardcover, Employing never-before-used historical materials, the au-thors 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, journa-lists reacted. Newspapers both reported on the Till investigation and editor-ialized on its protagonists. Within days the Till case transcended the specifics of a murder in the Delta. Coverage wrestled with such com-plex 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. [PU: University Press of Mississippi], Seiten: 277, University Press of Mississippi, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781934110157

Foreword: Keith A. Beauchamp, University Press of Mississippi, Hardcover, 277 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-01-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: new18-11302015-c0155703, 0.53 … Meer...

Foreword: Keith A. Beauchamp, University Press of Mississippi, Hardcover, 277 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-01-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: new18-11302015-c0155703, 0.53 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, Blues, Styles, Music, Arts & Photography, Subjects, Jazz, Pop, History & Criticism, Murder, True Crime, Biography, Black & African Americans, United States, Americas, 20th Century, Civil Rights & Citizenship, Civil Liberties & Political Activism, Government & Politics, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Discrimination & Racism, African American Studies, African Descent & Black, Ethnography, University Press of Mississippi, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781934110157

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 a… Meer...

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. Buch (fremdspr.) Davis W. Houck#Matthew A. Grindy gebundene Ausgabe, University Press of Mississippi, 01.01.2008, University Press of Mississippi, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781934110157

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: University Press of Mississippi], University Press of Mississippi, 2008