After searching on the internet for hours on end, the tedious task becoming an outright bother, I finally found two articles that I believe will suffice.All three of the writers have the same viewpoint. The event was a tragedy, the killers were at faukt, and it helped start the civil rights movement. While it is definitely true that there are some who believe it is Emmett Till's fault for whistling at the woman, or that the killers aren't really guilty, none of their work has been published, for hopefully obvious reasons.
The first article I chose is "1955 Killing Sparked Civil Rights Revolution: Emmett Till: South's Legend and Legacy." A long title such as this is only fit for the long story that was written. It tells the story of Emmett Till's death, describes the effects of his death on America at the time, shows the local black people's reaction, tells the story of his death in desription, shows his mom's reaction, gives insight into the courtroom of the trial, and then tells us where the people in the article are now, or at least when the article was written. In my opinion, it was just like a condensed version of thebook with slightly less detail, the version I would rather have read.
The second article is a biography of Emmet Till. How can a biography have a viewpoint? Well, the author chooses to put in certain sentences and chooses their wording carefully to give readers insight on their viewpoint, even in biographies. The biography starts off with a little bit about his parents, then his childhood, his trip to Mississippi, his death, the trial, and a little about the civil rights movement, in that order. It's a mini version of the book as well, with less emphasis on the civil rights movement.
In my opinion, the authors all agree that Emmett Till's death was a national tragedy, but that it helped move along the civil rights movement. They all went over the same main points, that he supposedly wolf whistled at a white pageant girl, that her husband and friends killed Emmett Till, and that it helped start civil rights movements. They all have different focuses though.
The book, it seems, focuses more on the civil rights aspect of the murder. While both articles featured more of the boy himself, the first article focuses more on the event's effects now and the biography focuses mainly on Emmett Till, his family, and his friends. I wasn't particularly interested in any of the three writings and they didn't hold my attention well, not because it's not important or anything like that, but simply because I'm not very interested in history or anything that hasn't happened in the last 20 or 30 years. This happened around 60 years ago, so, for now, I'm done blogging about it. Keep posted for my next (and last) update on this blog, part four of my summer assignment, which should be posted early next week, maybe Sunday or Monday.
-The Blog Monster
Citations:
Crowe, Chris. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. New York: Phyllis Fogelman, 2003. Print
"Emmett Till Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 03 Aug. 2013. http://www.biography.com/people/emmett-till-507515.
Jalon, Allan. "1955 Killing Sparked Civil Rights Revolution : Emmett Till: South's Legend and Legacy." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 07 Oct. 1985. Web. 03 Aug. 2013. http://articles.latimes.com/1985-10-07/news/mn-16511_1_emmett-till-s-name.
History News Network. Center for Histoy and New Media, n.d. Web. 3 Aug. 2013. http://hnn.us/sites/default/files/Emmett-Till-507515-1-402.jpg.
Good work on research. Remember, you don't necessarily have to find articles about the specific topic. You could move into the more general discussion of race crimes and whether we are truly progressing. A possible current controversial topic in this vein would be the Trayvon Martin case.
ReplyDeleteUhem...where is blog four?
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