Edition |
Standard version presented in a letterbox format. |
Description |
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 3/4 in. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
digital |
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optical |
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video file |
System Details |
DVD. |
Performer |
Narrator, Andre Braugher. |
Credits |
Cinematographer, Robert Shepard ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; composer, Tom Phillips ; coordinating producer, Laurens Grant ; assistance producer, Amilca Palmer ; sound supervisor, Rena C. Kosersky. |
Note |
Originally broadcast as part of the television series The American experience. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
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. |
Language |
Closed-captioned. |
Subject |
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
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Till, Emmett, 1941-1955. |
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Mississippi -- Race relations.
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Mississippi. |
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Race relations. |
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Lynching -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
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Lynching. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
African Americans -- Crimes against -- History -- Mississippi -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Crimes against. |
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African American teenage boys -- Mississippi -- Biography.
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African American teenage boys. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
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Racism. |
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Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi.
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Trials (Murder) |
Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Subject |
Racism. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Added Author |
Nelson, Stanley, production personnel, director.
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Smith, Marcia, screenwriter.
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Braugher, Andre, narrator.
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Shepard, Robert.
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Erskine, Lewis.
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Phillips, Tom.
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Grant, Laurens.
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Palmer, Amilca.
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Kosersky, Rena C.
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Firelight Media.
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WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
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WGBH Educational Foundation.
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PBS Home Video.
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Added Title |
American experience (Television program)
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ISBN |
0780645782 |
Music No. |
B8996 PBS Home Video |
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