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(Source:\u00a0 by Devin Galetta,\u00a0Florida State 24\/7<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0University Communications, Florida State University,\u00a0September 25, 2015 press release)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The Florida State University Libraries\u2019 Special Collections and Archives Division and Professor Davis W. Houck will establish what will become the foremost research collection on the life and death of Emmett Till, an African-American teenager whose murder in Mississippi in 1955 sparked protest in the South.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Till\u2019s death helped galvanize the civil rights movement in America, and Friday, Aug. 28, marks the 60th anniversary of his murder. Till, 14, was kidnapped, beaten and shot after he allegedly flirted with a white woman.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re very excited for this project because there is just simply nothing like it,\u201d said Houck, a faculty member in the College of Communication and Information who authored \u201cEmmett Till and the Mississippi Press.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve spent 20 years accumulating this material, most of which involved travel to Mississippi and archives around the South. It\u2019s long past due that we had a \u2018one-stop-archive\u2019 for all things Emmett Till, and with this collection, we’ll finally have that.\u201d<\/div>\n

The collection will feature newspaper coverage from the Till murder trial and court proceedings by domestic and international press, and materials from FBI investigations, court records and interview transcripts.<\/p>\n

Author Devery Anderson will contribute a comprehensive collection of newspaper articles, genealogical work, interview transcriptions and obscure magazine articles used to write his recently released book, \u201cEmmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement.\u201d Anderson\u2019s research not only tells the story of the Till case as it unfolded in 1955, but follows the case to the present day, incorporating the FBI\u2019s investigation and source materials, including a complete trial transcript.<\/p>\n

Interviews and oral histories gathered by filmmaker Keith Beauchamp for his Emmy-nominated documentary, \u201cThe Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,<\/em>\u201d will also comprise part of the archive. Beauchamp\u2019s research was pivotal in convincing the FBI to re-open the case in 2004 \u2014 an investigation that resulted in more than 8,000 pages of important material.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese materials from some of the nation\u2019s foremost Emmett Till researchers will be a great addition to our archives and an outstanding resource for students, researchers and civil rights historians worldwide,\u201d said Katie McCormick, associate dean for Special Collections and Archives.<\/p>\n

The collection will be available beginning in 2016 at the Special Collections Research Center at Strozier Library. For updates on the Till collection and further information on FSU\u2019s Special Collections and Archives, visit\u00a0FSU Special Collections & Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source:\u00a0 by Devin Galetta,\u00a0Florida State 24\/7,\u00a0\u00a0University Communications, Florida State University,\u00a0September 25, 2015 press release) \u00a0The Florida State University Libraries\u2019 Special Collections and Archives Division and Professor Davis W. Houck will establish what will become the foremost research collection on the life and death of Emmett Till, an African-American teenager whose murder in Mississippi in 1955 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,20],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival-news","category-prestigious-people","tag-archives","tag-emmett-till"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/afx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}