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- The Emmett Till Murder: The Civil Rights Movement Begins
from
Crimes and Trials of the Century, Volume 1: From the Black Sox Scandal to the Attica Prison Riots
(2007)
...In the early hours of a Saturday morning in August 1955, two men kidnapped 14-year-old Emmett Till from his great-uncle’s house near Money, Mississippi. Three days later, Till ’s tortured, swollen, and decomposing body was found snagged on some tree branches in the Tallahatchie River—one eye gouged out, one side of his forehead crushed, a...
- Emmett Till Case
from
Historical Dictionary of the 1950s
(2000)
...In the summer of 1955, Emmett Till , a 14-year-old resident of Chicago, Illinois, was spending his vacation with relatives in Mississippi. On the afternoon of August 24, Till went to a local grocery store with his cousins. What happened next is still uncertain. Till whistled habitually to control a speech defect, but...
- The Emmett Till Murder: The Civil Rights Movement Begins
from
Famous American Crimes and Trials
(2004)
...In the early hours of a Saturday morning in August 1955, two men kidnapped fourteen-year-old Emmett Till from his great-uncle’s house near Money, Mississippi. Three days later, Till ’s tortured, swollen, and decomposing body was found snagged on some tree branches in the Tallahatchie River—one eye gouged out, one side of his forehead crushed, a...
- Television, Teenagers, and Rock and Roll: Transportation and Vacations
from
Fun and Games in 20th-Century America: A Historical Guide to Leisure
(2003)
...“whites only” establishment, especially in southern states, could end up being much more than humiliated. Going to the wrong establishment could be severe, resulting in violence or even death (see Emmett Till ’s Summer Vacation) (McQuirter, “A Love Affair with Cars,” n.p.). In August 1955, Emmett Till from Chicago, Illinois, was sent to...
- Teen Culture in the 1950s: Politics and National Events
from
Twentieth-Century Teen Culture by the Decades: A Reference Guide
(1999)
...In August 1955 fourteen-year-old Emmett Till became the center of, and the victim in, “the first great media event of the civil rights movement” ( Halberstam 1993 , 437). Till left his Chicago home with his cousin, Curtis Jones, to visit a relative in the Mississippi Delta. Even though his mother warned him that...
- Mitchell, Mary A. (c.1949–)
from
African Americans in the Media Today: An Encyclopedia -- Volume 2, M–Z
(2007)
...Sometimes her column is partly autobiographical, as was the case in January 2003 when she wrote about the death of Mamie Till Mobley, whose son, Emmett Till , was the victim of murder because he had supposedly whistled at a white woman. Mitchell recalled her mother warning her twin and herself that they were so...
- Bonnie and Clyde: Mayhem In Missouri
from
Bonnie and Clyde: A Biography
(2007)
...scrutiny. They should have been more careful—the presence of a tight-knit group of outsiders who were constantly coming and going raised eyebrows in the small town. Red Crown Tavern owner Emmett Breen became suspicious. He contacted Sheriff Coffey of Platte City, who duly showed up, along with a state highway patrolman. The two cops took a peak inside...
- Ice Cube: Early Solo Successes, 1990–1993
from
The Words and Music of Ice Cube
(2008)
...scoring a one-night stand. Race and the thorny issue of black male/white female relationships are at the heart of this song, with Ice Cube evoking the image and memory of Emmett Till , a black 14-year-old who was brutally murdered and lynched in 1955 for allegedly treating a white woman with disrespect. He cautions black men against...
- Deggans, Eric (6 November 1965–)
from
African Americans in the Media Today: An Encyclopedia -- Volume 1, A–L
(2007)
...help … I think most African-Americans will point to black men. And that's not just about today, but in terms of looking at black men throughout history … whether it's Emmett Till , or any number of black men who are falsely accused of crimes, strung up and dumped in the river....
- Jack Johnson
from
African American Icons of Sport: Triumph, Courage, and Excellence
(2008)
...badly beat Terry Duryea, his lover. For most Americans, black and white, it was bad enough that he publicly courted white women, but to beat one bloody 55 years before Emmett Till was lynched for allegedly making an overture to a white woman, and then publicly marry her was too much for most white Americans to...
- Next Stop, the Ghetto: Tours of Ethnic Exotica in the Popular Press
from
Metropolis: The American City in Popular Culture
(2008)
...themselves were often stigmatized as undesirable, just whom to hate and how to fit in. The minstrel show was perhaps America's fist mass popular entertainment, and Irishmen such as Dan Emmett made their fortunes imitating the supposedly comical ways of plantation blacks and urban dandies among the northern freemen. As Eric Lott has documented, a macabre form of...
- “We Never Locked Our Doors at Night”: Newark on the Net, minus the Mob
from
Metropolis: The American City in Popular Culture
(2008)
...made sure black maids used separate glasses and plates, although two other informants recall having more advanced views on race. One wrote a letter to the Newark News about the Emmett Till lynching, “and my part of it was, if this is America, count me out, or something.” A second woman says her mother refused to...
- Muhammad Ali: The Lip Is Launched: Cassius Clay Emerges, 1942–1960
from
Muhammad Ali: A Biography
(2006)
...But perhaps the defining moment in his racial education came when his father told him about the murder of Emmett Till . Till was a fourteen year old Chicagoan who was brutally murdered in August 1954 while visiting relatives in Mississippi. He had allegedly said “Bye, baby” to a white clerk, whose husband and half...
- Crimes and Trials of the Century: Introduction to Volume 1
from
Crimes and Trials of the Century, Volume 1: From the Black Sox Scandal to the Attica Prison Riots
(2007)
...to bring her son’s murder to the attention of the country. Defying the instructions she had received from the Mississippi sheriff who had returned her son’s body to her, Mamie Till insisted that her son’s coffin be opened for viewing by mourners. In Chapter 13, Marcella Glodek Bush tells the story of Emmett Till , the...
- Jews in American Popular Culture: Television Drama of the Golden Age
from
Jews and American Popular Culture, Volume 1: Movies, Radio, and Television
(2007)
...broadcast, the first broadcast repeated because of popular demand. But Serling faced heavy censorship when he wanted to dramatize community tensions related to the August 1955 lynching of Chicago fourteen-year-old Emmett Till on a summer visit to relatives in a town in the Mississippi Delta and the subsequent acquittal of his abductors. Serling had already been...