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first great media event of the civil rights movement. i ve just received information of an acquittal in the murder charge of emmett till in leflore county. reporter: after little more than an hour of deliberations, the all white jury acquitted both defendants. it took 67 minutes. and one juror said, it wouldn t have taken us even that long except we stopped to have a soda. reporter: while the defendants escaped punishment, they would not escape judgment. after the trial, this man, journalist william bradford huie, persuaded them to sell their true story for $4,000. huie sold the story to look magazine. it s the ultimate insult to injury, having just been exonerated in this sham of a trial only to with no fear of
press basically ignored african-americans and not just episodes of violence against them, but achievements, anything to do with their daily life. basically flat out ignored them. they didn t even often use their names. the names of black people because that would be a sign of respect. it s galling now to look at the level of disregard and oblivion that was in the media at that time. so long as you sit in the back, you have a false sense of, inferiority, and so long as you let the white man sit in the front and push you back there, he has a false sense of superiority. montgomery bus boycott. unbelievably successful from the very first day, and it took weeks to get a national reporter in there. i think it was six weeks before a news magazine came in and then
i ve just received information of an acquittal in the murder charge of emmett till in leflore county. reporter: after little more than an hour of deliberations, the all white jury acquitted both defendants. it took 67 minutes. and one juror said, it wouldn t have taken us even that long except we stopped to have a soda. reporter: while the defendants escaped punishment, they would not escape judgment. after the trial, this man, journalist william bradford huie, persuaded them to sell their true story for $4,000. huie sold the story to look magazine. it s the ultimate insult to injury, having just been exonerated in this sham of a trial only to with no fear of double jeopardy tell their
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