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Remembering Emmett Till

"Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and injustice that became a beacon in the fight...

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Main Author: Tell, Dave, 1976- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Murder victims > Monuments > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > History.
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955 > Monuments > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955 > Anniversaries, etc.
Till, Emmett, > 1941-1955 > Anniversaries, etc. > Economic aspects.
Lynching victims > Monuments > Mississippi > Tallahatchie County > History.
Murder victims > Monuments > Mississippi > Tallahatchie County > History.
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social conditions.
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) > Social conditions.
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Race relations.
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) > Race relations.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
Collective memory > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Memorialization > Economic aspects > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: remembering Emmett Till
  • Race, geography, and the erasure of Sunflower County
  • Of race and rivers: topography and memory in Tallahatchie County
  • Emmett Till, Tallahatchie County, and the birthplace of the movement
  • Ruins and restoration in Money
  • Memory and misery in Glendora
  • Conclusion: vandalism and memory at Graball Landing.

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