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• "A New Fear Known to Me": Emmett Till's Influence and the Black Panther Party

  In the pages of the Chicago Defender, alongside those of the other leading "black" newspapers, the drama of Emmett Till's murder dominated the...

  7/1/08 by Young, Harvey · More from publication

• Truth Be Told: William Bradford Huie's Emmett Till Cycle

  I. To historians of the Emmett Till case, William Bradford Huie is best remembered for purchasing the post-trial confessions of murderers Roy Bryant...

  7/1/08 by Metress, Christopher · More from publication

• Preserving "that Racial Memory": Figurative Language, Sonnet Sequence, and the Work of Remembrance in Marilyn Nelson's A Wreath for Emmett Till

  Asked a few years ago to conceive of a book that would address the subject of lynching, Marilyn Nelson recalls, "I knew that I would write about...

  7/1/08 by Chandler, Karen · More from publication

• A Guided Tour through Hell: A Photographic Essay of Emmett Till's Mississippi Delta

  The Mississippi Delta is an alluvial, leaf-shaped flatland where history surfaces and screams everywhere. In this fertile land of cotton, corn, and...

  7/1/08 by Zheng, Jianqing · More from publication

• Sacred Vision and Dramatic Space: Voices, Time, and History in The Face of Emmett Till

  No one worked more zealously to tell the story of Emmett Till than did his mother, Mamie Bradley Till-Mobley (1921-2003). An extraordinary woman of...

  7/1/08 by Kolin, Philip C · More from publication

• Legacy of Emmett Till, The

  Emmett Till is one of the central figures on the stage of American racial trauma. Along with countless lynched black men who came before him - and...

  7/1/08 by Kolin, Philip C · More from publication

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