Rousseau, Loren Lynn
Wright Thompson grew up on his family’s farm in Clarksdale, Miss., about 23 miles from where Black teenager Emmett Till was savagely beaten and murdered after awhite womanaccused him of whistling in 1955. Till’s murder (and the subsequent acquittal of his killers) became a turning...
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When 14-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till walked into a grocery store in the Delta town of...doi:10.2307/3675800John R. TisdaleOral History ReviewJohn R. Tisdale, "Different Assignments, Different Perspectives: How Reporters Reconstruct the Emmett Till Civil Rights Murder Trial," Oral History ...