Search
Type
Format
Sort
Location
Audience

Summary: A biography of Emmett Louis Till, an African-American teenager who was murdered for whistling at a white women in Mississippi in 1955. Chronicles director Beauchamp's decade-long effort to determine the true identities of Till's killers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNT

Johnson, Yvette

Summary: 'Have to keep that smile,' Booker Wright said in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time, Wright spent his evenings waiting tables for whites at a local restaurant and his mornings running his own business. The ripple effect from his remarks would cement Booker as a civil rights icon because he did the unthinkable: before a national audience, Wright described what...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, YVETTE JOH

chat loading...
Back to Top