The murder of Emmett Till
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The work The murder of Emmett Till represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
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The murder of Emmett Till
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The work The murder of Emmett Till represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Hamilton East Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
- Label
- The murder of Emmett Till
- Statement of responsibility
- a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; a production of WGBH, Boston ; producer, Stanley Nelson ; writer, Marcia Smith ; director, Stanley Nelson
- Subject
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- African American teenage boys -- Mississippi -- Biography
- African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Documentary television programs
- Historical television programs
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Nonfiction films
- Nonfiction television programs
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began
- Cataloging source
- GZP
- Characteristic
- videorecording
- Credits note
- Cinematographer, Robert Shepard ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; composer, Tom Phillips
- Intended audience
- Not rated
- Language note
- Closed-captioned
- PerformerNote
- Narrator, Andre Braugher
- Runtime
- 60
- Target audience
- general
- Technique
- live action
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