Emmett Till

by Devery S. Anderson

  60. Dixon, “Torture and Murder,” 2.

  61. Huie, “Shocking Story,” 50.

  62. Prosecutive Report, 64–67.

  63. Huie, “Shocking Story,” 50; Prosecutive Report, 92; Porteous, “Officers Work All Night,” 7; Robert Walker statement in introductory film shown at the Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center, Glendora, Miss. Although his name is redacted from Dale Killinger’s report, Walker did supply Killinger with other information, but none of his statements in the Prosecutive Report mention seeing the fan. He told Killinger that he saw the truck go in the direction of the gin (Prosecutive Report, 64–65).

  64. Resume of interview with George Smith, Sheriff of Leflore County, Mississippi, Huie Papers, box 85, fd. 346; Prosecutive Report, 131.

  65. Nelson, Murder of Emmett Till.

  66. Prosecutive Report, 68, 91.

  67. Dailey, emails to author, May 14, 2012, and September 7, 2013.

  68. Metress, Lynching of Emmett Till, 159–61.

  69. L. Alex Wilson, “Reveals Two Key Witnesses Jailed,” Tri-State Defender (Memphis, Tenn.), October 1, 1955, 2.

  70. Hugh Stephen Whitaker, “A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Emmett Till Case” (Master’s thesis, Florida State University, 1963), 32, reprinted as Hugh Stephen Whitaker, “A Case Study in Southern Justice: The Murder and Trial of Emmett Till,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 208–9.

  71. Henry Lee Loggins, interview, in Beauchamp, Untold Story.

  72. Louis E. Lomax, “Henry Loggins Found, but Refuses to Leave Jail Cell,” Daily Defender (Chicago), March 12, 1955, 8; Lomax, “Milam Jails His Handyman,” Daily Defender (Chicago), March 20, 1956, 5.

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  ———. “Time Heals Few Wounds for Emmett Till’s Mother.” Jet 66, no. 5 (April 9, 1984): 54–56.

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  Chura, Patrick. “Prolepsis and Anachronism: Emmett Till and the History of To Kill a Mockingbird.” Southern Literary Journal 32, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 1–26.

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