COMM student working with Prof. Houck discovers old newspapers with insights on Emmett Till murder case

Posted by Natalie Kates on March 31, 2013May 16, 2019

FSU undergraduate student, Jessica Primiani, has discovered documents from an African-American newspaper (the St. Louis Argus) which were long missing and shed new insights about the Emmett Till murder case. In 1955, Till, a 14-year-old black boy, was brutally killed after allegedly flirting with a white woman in Money, Mississippi. This incident and his trial …

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COMM student working with Prof. Houck discovers old newspapers with insights on Emmett Till murder case