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Description

1. 1 volume (56 leaves) : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

1. This scrapbook (1955) is about the lynching of Emmett Till and contains clippings from a variety of newspapers. The clippings cover the months following his lynching in Mississippi, including coverage of his funeral in Chicago, the indictment of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for Till's murder, the trial process including testimony and evidence, the acquittal of Bryant and Milam on murder charges, and several protest rallies across the country in response to the acquittals.
2. Publications include the Daily Worker (New York), Greensboro Daily News, New York Post, and New York Times. Not all clippings include date and source information.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Alternative title

1. Till Case

Subject

1. Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
2. Till-Mobley, Mamie, 1921-2003
3. Lynching -- African Americans.
4. Hate crimes -- 20th century
5. Lynching -- Mississippi -- 20th century
6. Trials (Murder) -- Mississippi -- 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Till Case)

Note

1. Compiled and bound by the New York Public Library

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 18

Cite as (note)

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography (note)

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance (note)

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960.

Title

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks : Till Case.

Production

1. 1955.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Restricted access

1. Researchers are restricted to the microfilm copy in: Sc Micro R-707 r. 18

Cite as:

1. Schomburg Center Scrapbooks, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Terms of use

1. Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication

Biography

1. The Schomburg Center Scrapbooks are a collection of 296 volumes assembled by library staff between the 1920s and 1960s, to supplement the collection of black history resources that would later form the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The staff were strategic in their clipping, choosing to highlight black voices and topics of particular interest to the African American community. The scrapbooks are organized by topic and consist primarily of newspaper clippings, unless otherwise noted.

Provenance

1. The Schomburg scrapbooks may have grown out of the clipping file, when librarian Catherine Latimer assigned WPA workers to clip African American and mainstream newspapers and assemble them into scrapbooks. Two or three scrapbooks on Marcus Garvey went missing around 1960.

Spine title

1. Till Case

Research call number

1. Sc MG 958 (Till Case)