The murder of Emmett Till

The murder of Emmett Till

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The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury...

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Main Author: Phillips, Tom (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Firelight Media, WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), PBS Home Video
Other Authors: Nelson, Stanley, 1951- (Producer, Director), Smith, Marcia A. (Screenwriter), Braugher, Andre (Narrator), Shepard, Robert (Cinematographer), Erskine, Lewis (Film editor), Grant, Laurens (Producer), Palmer, Amilca (Producer), Kosersky, Rena C. (Sound designer)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Boston : Alexandria, Va. : WGBH Educational Foundation ; PBS Home Video, c2003.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955.
1900 - 1999
Lynching > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Crimes against > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
African American teenage boys > Mississippi > Biography.
Racism > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Trials (Murder) > Mississippi.
African American teenage boys.
African Americans > Crimes against.
Lynching.
Race relations.
Racism.
Trials (Murder)
Mississippi > Race relations.
Mississippi.
Biographies.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
History.
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