Remembering Emmett Till, Dave Tell
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Remembering Emmett Till, Dave Tell
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Remembering Emmett Till
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Dave Tell
Summary
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 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, Till's murder-one of the darkest moments in the region's history-has 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 Delta's 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
Target audience
adult
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Subject
- Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc
- Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions
- Murder victims + Monuments -- Mississippi -- Tallahatchie County -- History
- Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Social conditions
- Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Race relations
- Electronic books
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Economic aspects
- Murder victims + Monuments -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject10
- Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc
- Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions
- Murder victims + Monuments -- Mississippi -- Tallahatchie County -- History
- Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Social conditions
- Tallahatchie County (Miss.) -- Race relations
- Electronic books
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Economic aspects
- Murder victims + Monuments -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History
- Content1
- Author1