The murder of Emmett Till, a Firelight Media production for American Experience, a production of WGBH Boston
Type
Label
The murder of Emmett Till, a Firelight Media production for American Experience, a production of WGBH Boston
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
High school - adults
Main title
The murder of Emmett Till
Responsibility statement
a Firelight Media production for American Experience, a production of WGBH Boston
Runtime
60
Summary
Chronicles the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, and the trial that resulted in the acquittal of the white suspects by an all-white jury
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- Documentary films
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
Content
Is Derivative Of
Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Contributor5
- Genre2
- Subject8
- Documentary films
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- Content1
- Is Derivative Of1