The murder of Emmett Till [videorecording] / a Firelight Media Production for American Experience ; a production of WGBH, Boston ; producer, Stanley Nelson ; writer, Marcia Smith ; director, Stanley Nelson
- Published:
- Boston : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, Va. : PBS Home Video, [2003]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2003
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 3/4 in.
- Additional Creators:
- Nelson, Stanley, 1955-, Smith, Marcia, Braugher, Andre, Shepard, Robert, Erskine, Lewis, Phillips, Tom, 1937-, Grant, Laurens, Palmer, Amilca, Kosersky, Rena C., Firelight Media, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Educational Foundation, and PBS Home Video
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned.
- 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.
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- ISBN:
- 079369552X
- Related Titles:
- American experience (Television program)
- Audience Notes:
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Note:
- Originally broadcast as part of the television series The American experience.
- Creation/Production Credits Note:
- Cinematographer, Robert Shepard ; editor, Lewis Erskine ; composer, Tom Phillips ; coordinating producer, Laurens Grant ; assistance producer, Amilca Palmer ; sound supervisor, Rena C. Kosersky.
- Participant/Performer Note:
- Narrator, Andre Braugher.
- Technical Details:
- DVD; region 1; NTSC; Doilby Surround; full screen presentation.
- Terms of Use and Reproduction:
- No public performance rights. Classroom instruction and home use permitted.
- Source of Acquisition:
- New Kensington copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20056.
- Endowment Note:
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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