| Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press Contributor(s): Houck, Davis W. (Author), Grindy, Matthew A. (Author), Beauchamp, Keith A. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1934110159 ISBN-13: 9781934110157 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2008 Annotation: An analysis of the media's reaction to the lynching of a young black man |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 364.134 |
| LCCN: 2007014910 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.58" W x 9.41" (1.17 lbs) 213 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1950's - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - South - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Houck, Davis W.: - Davis W. Houck is associate professor of communication at Florida State University. He is the author of six books, including Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression and FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address. Beauchamp, Keith A.: -Keith A. Beauchamp, a filmmaker based in New York City, is the director of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till. Grindy, Matthew A.: -Matthew A. Grindy is a doctoral candidate of communication at Florida State University. |