Remembering Emmett Till
(Book)
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Published
Chicago ; The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
364.134 TELL 2019
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364.134 TELL 2019
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations.
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions.
Murder victims -- Monuments -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History.
Murder victims -- Monuments -- Mississippi -- Tallahatchie County -- History.
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Race relations.
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Social conditions.
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Economic aspects.
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations.
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions.
Murder victims -- Monuments -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History.
Murder victims -- Monuments -- Mississippi -- Tallahatchie County -- History.
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Race relations.
Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Social conditions.
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Economic aspects.
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Published
Chicago ; The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-296) and index.
Description
Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and youll 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 for racial equality. The ways this event is remembered have been fraught from the beginning, revealing currents of controversy, patronage, and racism lurking just behind the placid facades of historical markers. In Remembering Emmett Till, Dave Tell gives us five accounts of the commemoration of this infamous crime. In a development no one could have foreseen, Tills murderone of the darkest moments in the regions historyhas become an economic driver for the Delta. Historical tourism has transformed seemingly innocuous places like bridges, boat landings, gas stations, and riverbeds into sites of racial politics, reminders of the still-unsettled question of how best to remember the victim of this heinous crime. Tell builds an insightful and persuasive case for how these memorials have altered the Deltas physical and cultural landscape, drawing potent connections between the dawn of the civil rights era and our own moment of renewed fire for racial justice.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Tell, D. (2019). Remembering Emmett Till . The University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tell, Dave, 1976-. 2019. Remembering Emmett Till. The University of Chicago Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Tell, Dave, 1976-. Remembering Emmett Till The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Tell, Dave. Remembering Emmett Till The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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