Similarly, major news organizations have provided “wall-to-wall” coverage of the recent high-profile deaths, protests, legal development and memorials for Floyd, Benson said.īut there also are marked differences in the two moments, historians say. Reporters documented Till’s murder, open casket and trial (which Till-Mobley called a “farce”) in what then-West Point Daily Times Leader reporter and future New York Times correspondent and author David Halberstam later called the first “major media event of the civil rights era.”
“And now we have a fear of change once again - the new demographic change on the horizon,” he said, referring to the growing percentage of nonwhite people living in the United States. “The death of Emmett Till was a reaction to a fear among white people in the South to change that resulted from the legal struggle for equality,” Benson said. Supreme Court ordered schools to desegregate with “all deliberate speed.” In the weeks before Till’s murder, two black men were lynched in Mississippi. Board of Education” ruling, in which the U.S. There are parallels in the historical context of the two men’s deaths, said Christopher Benson, a journalist, lawyer and co-author with Till-Mobley on her book “Death of Innocence.” When Till boarded the train to Mississippi, he was headed to the Jim Crow-era South in the wake of the “Brown v. “When we see the face of George Floyd, it doesn’t take us far from the death of Emmett Till.” “For many people now, it’s going to be that image of George Floyd being on the ground, suffocating - that’s going to be their inspiration to continue the work,” Beauchamp said.
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