Sandra Levkovich
The article that I will be using for my critical response essay INDICTMENT IN MISSISSIPPI New York Times (1923-Current file); ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 – 2006) Sep 7, 1955; pg 30.
The reason that I chose this article is that in class when we had the presentation about the library database, the presenter used the topic the murder of Emmett Till. I was curious as to find out what this murder was about. Before picking this topic as my critical response journal, I researched about the murder. I want to be able to succeed in this essay meanwhile writing about something that truly interests me.
Basically what the article describes is that in Mississippi, there is a high percentage of black people in their population. It is said in the article that Mississippi “makes the state a particularly important testing ground in race relations.” The state was known for where many lynching ,to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority, had occured on the racially different people.
To go on with the article, a boy named Emmett Till was accused of whistling at a white woman. He was found dead three days later. Emmett was 14 years old. Two white men were indicted for Emmett’s murder but they both deny that they had done the crime. The grand jury was made up of white men who are against the other white men for a crime against a black person.
The discussion of this article in my critical response essay may take me to elaborate more about what had happend in the case, what the final verdict was and etc. I would discuss how this article has to do with the race, crime and justice in the United States.
