Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press by Houck, Davis W.

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781604738506)

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Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press by Houck, Davis W.

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

$35.00
Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press by Houck, Davis W.

Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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An analysis of the media's reaction to the lynching of a young black man 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. 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. Matthew A. Grindy is a doctoral candidate of communication at Florida State University. Keith A. Beauchamp, a filmmaker based in New York City, is the director of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.

Author: Davis W. Houck, Matthew A. Grindy
ISBN-10: 1604738502
ISBN-13: 9781604738506
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2010
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d
By Davis W. Houck
By Davis W. Houck
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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.

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