The murder of Emmett Till, a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; a production of WGBH, Boston ; producer, Stanley Nelson ; writer, Marcia Smith ; director, Stanley Nelson
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Label
The murder of Emmett Till, a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; a production of WGBH, Boston ; producer, Stanley Nelson ; writer, Marcia Smith ; director, Stanley Nelson
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Main title
The murder of Emmett Till
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
58473044
Responsibility statement
a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; a production of WGBH, Boston ; producer, Stanley Nelson ; writer, Marcia Smith ; director, Stanley Nelson
Runtime
60
Summary
The shameful, 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
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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Contributor
Subject
- Documentary films
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African American teenage boys -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor9
- Genre2
- Subject9
- Documentary films
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African American teenage boys -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- Is Derivative Of1
- Mapped to1