Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle
by
Darryl Mace
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
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...