- Collection:
- A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Emmett Till Case
- Title:
- A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Emmett Till Case
- Contributor to Resource:
- Irish, Marion D.
Rogers, William W.
Parsons, Malcolm B. - Publisher:
- Tallahassee, Fla. : Florida State University
- Date of Original:
- 1963
- Subject:
- Murder victims
Kidnapping victims
Race relations
Lynching - People:
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- Location:
- United States, Florida, Leon County, Tallahassee, 30.43826, -84.28073
- Medium:
- masters theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- On August 28, 1955, Emmett Louis Till was abducted from the home of his uncle, Mose Wright, near Money, Mississippi. A body was recovered three days later in the nearby Tallahatchie River, which divides Tallahatchie and Leflore Counties, and the body was closer to the Tallahatchie bank of the river. A week later the Grand Jury of Tallahatchie County indicted J. W. Milan and Roy Bryant on separate counts of murder and kidnapping. On September 198, 1955, in Sumner, Mississippi, there began a trial destined to be the most publicized kidnap-murder trial since the Bruno Hauptman case, seventy reporters covered the trial, representing newspapers and magazines from all over the United States and from some foreign countries. Nearly every newspaper in the country gave the case and trial front-page play, as did many of those published in other countries.
A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. - Metadata URL:
- http://purl.fcla.edu/fsu/etd-05272004-140932
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections
- Rights:
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