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1006256
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b760626
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| Main Entry
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Houck, Davis W.
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| Title & Author
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Emmett Till and the Mississippi press /\ Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy ; foreword by Keith A. Beauchamp.
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| Publication Statement
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Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xv, 213 pages)
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| ISBN
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1282485563
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: 1604733047
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: 6612485566
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: 9781282485563
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: 9781604733044
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: 9786612485565
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1934110159
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9781934110157
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- "Sowing seeds of hatred" (August 28-September 1) -- "Comely Carolyn" (September 2-September 6) -- "Resentful of the slant" (September 7-September 9) -- "The world Is watching" (September 10-September 18) -- "Every last Anglo-Saxon one of you" (September 19-September 23) -- "Forgotten as quickly as possible"? (September 24-September 30) -- "Like father like son" (October 1955-January 1956) -- Retrospective prospects.
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| Abstract
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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 react.
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Till, Emmett,1941-1955-- Death and burial-- Press coverage.
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Till, Emmett,1941-1955.
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- Press coverage-- Mississippi.
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African Americans-- Crimes against-- Press coverage-- Mississippi.
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Journalism-- Political aspects-- Mississippi-- History-- 20th century.
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Public opinion-- Mississippi-- History-- 20th century.
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Racism-- Mississippi-- History-- 20th century.
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects-- Mississippi-- History-- 20th century.
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Trials (Murder)-- Press coverage-- Mississippi-- Sumner.
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Journalism-- Political aspects.
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Public opinion.
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Race relations-- Press coverage.
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Race relations.
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Racism.
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Rhetoric-- Political aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Media Studies.
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TRUE CRIME-- General.
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Mississippi, Race relations, History, 20th century.
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Mississippi, Race relations, Press coverage.
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Mississippi, Sumner.
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Mississippi.
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| Dewey Classification
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364.1/34
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| LC Classification
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E185.93.M6H59 2008eb
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| Added Entry
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Grindy, Matthew A.
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