{"product_id":"9781604733044","title":"Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmploying never-before-used historical materials, the authors of \u003ci\u003eEmmett Till and the Mississippi Press\u003c\/i\u003e 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, journalists reacted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Newspapers both reported on the Till investigation and editorialized on its protagonists. Within days the Till case transcended the specifics of a murder in the Delta. Coverage wrestled with such complex cultural matters as the role of the press, class, gender, and geography in the determination of guilt and innocence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmmett Till and the Mississippi Press\u003c\/i\u003e provides a careful examination of the courtroom testimony given in Sumner, Mississippi, and the trial's conclusion as reported by the state's newspapers. The book closes with an analysis of how Mississippi has attempted to come to terms with its racially troubled past by, in part, memorializing Emmett Till in and around the Delta.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46315429003505,"sku":"9781604733044","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781604733044_p0.jpg?v=1765996373","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781604733044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}