Title
Emmett Till
Files
Download Emmett Yill Segment (2.4 MB)
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Description
WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was murdered in a brutal hate crime that occurred in 1955 Mississippi. His death, and the subsequent lack of justice against the killers, served as major catalysts for the American Civil Rights Movements.
Publisher
90.9 WMPG FM
City
Portland, Maine
Keywords
Mississippi, Hate crimes, Civil Rights Movement, Black History Month
Disciplines
African American Studies | Africana Studies | African History | American Art and Architecture | American Film Studies | American Literature | American Popular Culture | American Studies | Art and Design | Children's and Young Adult Literature | Contemporary Art | Creative Writing | Cultural History | Digital Humanities | English Language and Literature | Fashion Design | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Fiction | Film and Media Studies | Film Production | Fine Arts | Hip Hop Studies | History | History of Gender | History of Religion | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Intellectual History | Interdisciplinary Arts and Media | Islamic World and Near East History | Labor History | Latin American History | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Literature in English, British Isles | Literature in English, North America | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Modern Literature | Music | Music Performance | Nonfiction | Oral History | Other American Studies | Other Arts and Humanities | Other English Language and Literature | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Other Film and Media Studies | Other History | Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Other Music | Poetry | Political History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Radio | Screenwriting | Social History | United States History | Visual Studies | Women's History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Rand, Jim, "Emmett Till" (2020). Black History Month Segments. 2.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wmpg_bhm/2
