A case study in southern justice: the Emmett Till case
A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
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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
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.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
Florida State University Libraries. Special Collections
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