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

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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