The lynching of Emmett Till : a documentary narrative / edited by Christopher Metress.
2002
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Title
The lynching of Emmett Till : a documentary narrative / edited by Christopher Metress.
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002.
Call Number
F350.N4 L96 2002
ISBN
0813921228 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081392121X (alk. paper)
081392121X (alk. paper)
Description
xii, 360 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)49225218
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Shifting Grounds of History and Memory
1
1
Discovery and Indictment
Two White Men Charged with Kidnaping Negro Delta Democrat-Times
14
Parents and Relatives Keep Silent in Case of Boy Charged with Ugly Remarks to Storekeeper[']s Wife Jackson Advocate
15
Muddy River Gives Up Body of Brutally Slain Negro Boy Memphis Commercial Appeal
16
Designed to Inflame Jackson Daily News
19
Mississippi Notebook: Our State a Target for Hate Campaign / Tom Ethridge
22
A Lynch-Murder Aids Enemies of the South Atlanta Constitution
25
Blood on Their Hands Chicago Defender
25
End the Racist Conspiracy! Daily Worker
26
Meddling in Local Case Creates Problems Greenwood Morning Star
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 Memphis Commercial Appeal
34
Charleston Sheriff Says Body in River Wasn't Young Till Memphis Commercial Appeal
36
Grand Jury Gets Case: Troops Posted in Delta as Mob Violence Feared in Aftermath to Slaying Jackson Daily News
37
Lynching Post-Facto Delta Democrat-Times
38
Bad News for NAACP Jackson Daily News
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 Jackson Daily News
59
Roman Circus Jackson Daily News
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 Washington Afro-American
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 Jackson State Times
89
Mrs. Bryant Tells How Northern Negro Grabbed Her, "Wolf-Whistled" in Store Jackson Daily News
92
Woman in Lynching Case Weaves Fantastic Story Washington Afro-American
96
Sheriff Strider's Testimony Raises Doubt Body in River Was Till Youth Jackson Daily News
97
Jury Hears Defense and Prosecution Arguments as Testimony Ends in Kidnap-Slaying Case / Sam Johnson
99
Called Lynch-Murder, "Morally, Legally" Wrong Cleveland Call and Post
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 Greenwood Morning Star
115
Acquittal Delta Democrat-Times
115
The Verdict at Sumner Jackson Daily News
116
Letter to the Editor / Chester Himes
117
The Shame of Our Nation Daily Worker
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 Jackson Advocate
126
What You Can Do about the Disgrace in Sumner Chicago Defender
127
A Careful, Last Look Jackson Daily News
128
Double Murder in Mississippi Christian Century
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? Delta Democrat-Times
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 Chicago Defender
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 The American Anti-Communist Militia
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) I. S.
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