@article{428135, note = {Originally broadcast in 2003 as part of the television series The American experience.}, author = {Nelson, Stanley, and Smith, Marcia A. and Braugher, Andre. and Phillips, Tom.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/428135}, title = {The murder of Emmett Till [videorecording] /}, publisher = {PBS Home Video,}, abstract = {The 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.}, recid = {428135}, pages = {1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) :}, address = {Hollywood, Calif. :}, year = {2004}, }