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dave ________________________________ *********************************** Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press By Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy Foreword by Keith A. Beauchamp University Press of Mississippi ISBN 978-1-934110-15-7, hardback, $40 Book News for Immediate Release Story changed when Mississippi journalists covered Emmett Till murder The story of Emmett Till's murder still resonates nearly 50 years after his death. And the story has grown and continued to change since 1955. >From its inception, the narrative of Emmett Till expanded from a small-town disappearance worthy of three small paragraphs in a local paper into a front-page headline in international newspapers and a wedge issue in the fight for racial justice. Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press (University Press of Mississippi) reveals how the Mississippi press, especially newspapers, both expressed and created public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett Till murder. Employing never before used historical materials, including weekly newspapers as well as large circulation dailies, authors Davis W. Houck and Matthew A. Grindy analyze the fascinating rhetorical dynamics of a racially motivated slaying in a small town. Initially print 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. Within days it became clear that the Till case transcended the details of a murder in the Delta. Coverage expanded to include such complex cultural matters as the role of the press, class, gender, and geography in the determination of guilt and innocence. Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press also provides a careful examination of the courtroom testimony given in Sumner, Mississippi, and the trial's conclusion as reported by the state's newspapers. Following the trial, the authors follow the story to its sordid conclusion, which involved the sensational revelations about Emmett Till's father as well as the now-infamous murder confession in Look magazine. The book closes with an analysis of how Mississippi has attempted to reconcile its racially troubled past by, in part, memorializing Emmett Till in and around the Delta. Davis W. Houck is associate professor of communication at Florida State University. He is the author of Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression and FDR and Fear Itself: The First Inaugural Address. Matthew A. Grindy (1981-2008) received a Ph.D. in speech communication at Florida State University. For more information contact Clint Kimberling, Publicist, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read more about Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press at: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1069 <http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1069>
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