The lynching of Emmett Till : a documentary narrative / edited by Christopher Metress
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| Subjects: | Lynching--Mississippi--History--20th century--Sources African Americans--Crimes against--Mississippi--History--20th century--Sources Racism--Mississippi--History--20th century--Sources Trials (Murder)--Mississippi Mississippi--Race relations--Sources Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 Milam, J. W.--Trials, litigation, etc |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002 |
| Series: | American South series |
| LC Classification: | F |
| Table of Contents: | Acknowledgments Introduction: The Shifting Grounds of History and Memory 1 1. Discovery and Indictment Two White Men Charged with Kidnaping Negro 14 Parents and Relatives Keep Silent in Case of Boy Charged with Ugly Remarks to Storekeeper[']s Wife 15 Muddy River Gives Up Body of Brutally Slain Negro Boy 16 Designed to Inflame 19 Mississippi Notebook: Our State a Target for Hate Campaign / Tom Ethridge 22 A Lynch-Murder Aids Enemies of the South 25 Blood on Their Hands 25 End the Racist Conspiracy! 26 Meddling in Local Case Creates Problems 27 Mother's Tears Greet Son Who Died a Martyr / Mattie Smith Colin 29 Mother Waits in Vain for Her "Bo" / Mattie Smith Colin, Robert Elliott 30 50,000 Mourn at Bier of Lynched Negro Child / Carl Hirsch 31 "Were Never into Meanness" Says Accused Men's Mother 34 Charleston Sheriff Says Body in River Wasn't Young Till 36 Grand Jury Gets Case: Troops Posted in Delta as Mob Violence Feared in Aftermath to Slaying 37 Lynching Post-Facto 38 Bad News for NAACP 40 Mississippi Notebook: Our People Have Behaved Mighty Well / Tom Ethridge 40 2. The Trial Jury Selection Reveals Death Demand Unlikely / John Herbers 45 Jim Crow Press at Till Trial / L. Alex Wilson 48 Wives Serious, Children Romp as Trial Begins / James Gunter 50 The Baby Sitter / Murray Kempton 53 Lynched Boy's Mother Sees Jurymen Picked / Rob F. Hall 55 Jokes, Threats Are Blended at Tension-Packed Sumner / James Gunter 57 Grandstand Play Again 59 Roman Circus 60 Judge Swango Is Good Promoter for South / Harry Marsh 60 Heart of Darkness / Murray Kempton 62 He Went All the Way / Murray Kempton 65 Uncle of Till's Identifies Pair of Men Who Abducted Chicago Negro / Sam Johnson 68 Slain Boy's Uncle Identifies Bryant, Milam on Stand / Ralph Hutto 74 Mother, "Surprise Witness" Give Dramatic Testimony: Mamie Bradley Says Corpse Was That of Her Slain Son [part 2] / Ralph Hutto 75 Mother, "Surprise Witness" Give Dramatic Testimony: Mamie Bradley Says Corpse Was That of Her Slain Son [part 1] / Ralph Hutto 79 Mother Insulted on Witness Stand 83 The Future / Murray Kempton 84 Youth Puts Milam in Till Death Barn / James L. Hicks 87 Judge Sends Jury Out of Courtroom during Testimony of Defendant Roy Bryant's Wife 89 Mrs. Bryant Tells How Northern Negro Grabbed Her, "Wolf-Whistled" in Store 92 Woman in Lynching Case Weaves Fantastic Story 96 Sheriff Strider's Testimony Raises Doubt Body in River Was Till Youth 97 Jury Hears Defense and Prosecution Arguments as Testimony Ends in Kidnap-Slaying Case / Sam Johnson 99 Called Lynch-Murder, "Morally, Legally" Wrong 101 Defendants Receive Handshakes, Kisses / James L. Kilgallen 104 2 Face Trial as "Whistle" Kidnapers - Due to Post Bond and Go Home / Murray Kempton 107 Mississippi Jungle Law Frees Slayers of Child / James L. Hicks 111 3. Post-Trial Reactions and Assessments Fair Trial Was Credit to Mississippi 115 Acquittal 115 The Verdict at Sumner 116 Letter to the Editor / Chester Himes 117 The Shame of Our Nation 118 The State of Mississippi Still Carries the Burden / Atlanta Constitution 119 Justice in Sumner / Dan Wakefield 120 Langston Hughes Wonders Why No Lynching Probe / Langston Hughes 124 The Till Case Verdict 126 What You Can Do about the Disgrace in Sumner 127 A Careful, Last Look 128 Double Murder in Mississippi 130 Southern Style / Roi Ottley 131 Press Release, Office of the Honorable Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. / Adam Clayton Powell 133 I Think the Till Jury Will Have Uneasy Conscience / Eleanor Roosevelt 136 Whose Circus? 137 Memo from the American Jewish Committee on European Reaction to the Till Case, 7 October 1955 138 Selected Letters to the Editor: From the Washington Afro-American 143 Selected Letters to the Editor: From the Baltimore Afro-American 144 Selected Letters to the Editor: From the Cleveland Call and Post 145 Selected Letters to the Editor: From the Memphis Commercial Appeal 146 Selected Letters to the Editor: From the Atlanta Constitution 151 4. Searching for the Truth James L. Hicks's "Inside Story" of the Emmet Till Trial (series from Cleveland Call and Post) Sheriff Kept Key Witness Hid in Jail During Trial 155 White Reporters Doublecrossed Probers Seeking Lost Witnesses 161 The Mississippi Lynching Story: Luring Terrorized Witnesses from the Plantations Was Toughest Job 168 Jimmy Hicks Tells Inside Story of Infamous Mississippi Lynch Case 173 Defender Tracks Down Mystery Till "Witnesses" / L. Alex Wilson 178 Here Is What "Too Tight" Said 182 An Open Letter To U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover / James L. Hicks 194 Emmett Till Is Alive 199 The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi / William Bradford Huie 200 What's Happened to the Emmett Till Killers? / William Bradford Huie 208 From Time Bomb: Mississippi Exposed and the Full Story of Emmett Till / Olive Arnold Adams 213 5. Memoirs From "Mamie Bradley's Untold Story" / Mamie Till Bradley, Ethel Payne 226 From Wolf Whistle and Other Stories / William Bradford Huie 235 From For Us, the Living / Medgar Evers 247 From Coming of Age in Mississippi / Anne Moody 250 From Soul On Ice / Eldridge Cleaver 257 From The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC / Cleveland Sellers, Robert Terrell 262 From My Soul's is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered / Ruby Hurley, Howell Raines 264 From "On Being Black and Middle Class" / Shelby Steele 265 Remembering Emmett Till / Michael Eric Dyson 266 Growing Up White in the South: An Essay / Lewis Nordan 270 From Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black / Gregory Howard Williams 275 From Profiles in Black Courage / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 276 The Killing of Black Boys / John Edgar Wideman 278 6. Literary Explorations Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old / Richard Davidson 291 Mississippi - 1955 / Langston Hughes 293 The Money, Mississippi, Blues / Langston Hughes, Jobe Huntley 294 A Cause for Justice / Richard Davidson 298 For Emmett Till / Mary Parks 301 Blood on Mississippi / Ernest Wakefield Stevens 302 Mississippi / Martha Millet 303 A Tribute to Emmett Till / Mary Carson Cooper 309 For Moses Wright (Uncle of Emmett Louis Till) 310 Promotional Flyer for "A Good Place to Raise a Boy" / Wade Dente 311 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi, Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 313 The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 317 The Death of Emmett Till / Bob Dylan 318 Note for Blues / James Baldwin 319 Till / Julius E. Thompson 321 Afterimages / Audre Lorde 323 Emmett Till / Wanda Coleman 328 From 1935: A Memoir / Sam Cornish 333 Emmett Till and the Men Who Killed Him / June Akers Seese 336 The Lovesong of Emmett Till / Anthony Walton 339 Emmett Till / Bryan Johnson 341 Can I Write of Flowers? / Jeanne Miller 342 Afterword 346 Index 351 |
| Additional Authors: | Metress, Christopher |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2002002337 ISBN: 081392121X (acid-free paper) ISBN: 0813921228 (pbk. : acid-free paper) Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 360 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 49225218 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 081392121X 0813921228 |