Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is little doubt that the "emotionalism" of the NAACP has aggravated the guilty pride of the Southerner, and in publicizing the Till case the NAACP set out to provoke aggravation. For, as Mr. Halberstam says, "there is a double standard of justice in Mississippi, one for Negroes, the other for whites. On the assumption that the evidence clearly pointed to Milam and Bryant as the kidnappers and murderers of Emmett Till, the group sought to focus national and world attention on the small Southern courtroom. The state attorney general had brought the defendants to trial, but this conscientious action...
...above is granted as being a true representation of the picture, I still cannot see where Mr. Halberstam has contributed much to the clarification of the larger issue which is contingent upon the particulars of the Emmett Till case. It is this part of Mr. Halberstam's argument that I wish to fill in, since without this, his article seems pointless and vacuous...
...fundamental reason for such a thing as the Emmett Till episode ... rests upon the archaic ideology of the southern people as a majority. I interpret ideology here in the Webster sense as the "aggregate of ideas, beliefs, doctrines of a large group of persons". This ideology has lead the Southerners to spew forth such statements as the following: "If Roy and J. W. (referring to Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, the defendants in the Till case) are convicted of murder...where under the shining sun is the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Or more...
...that may range from a factory whistle to an organ note to a kissing sound captured right at home. Then, by using electronic machinery that might have baffled his father, he takes the "raw" sounds, breaks them up into components, forms rhythmic patterns with them, amplifies and filters them till they bear no resemblance to their former selves. After such treatment, the kiss, for instance, sounds like three people in high heels kicking out a wicked beat...
...contrast to the NAACP's handling of both the Till case and Boyd's decision was the reaction of two social workers, Dr. David Minter and Gene Cox, in another case widely publicized here. Minter and Cox were ordered to leave Holmes County by a mass meeting of the Citizens' Council because they worked for integration. The first action the two men took, however, was to call up every New York and Washington religious and political group which might protest and tell it not to say anything for the present...