The murder of Emmett Till [videorecording] / Firelight Media prodection for American Experience ; a production of WGBH, Boston ; producer, Stanley Nelson ; writer, Marcia Smith ; director Stanley Nelson.

Contributor Nelson, Stanley, 1951-

Imprint:[S.l.] : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Alexandria, VA, : PBS Home Video c2003.

Description1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Originally broadcast as part of the television series The American Experience.

Note:The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at white women 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.

Note : PerformerNarrator, Andre Braugher.

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