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Getting Away With Murder Analysis

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The role the media played in the book Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, by author Chris Crowe, was writing articles and posting the picture of Emmett Till’s deformed body in newspapers. Without the attention of the media, there would be no way of getting the news of the death of Emmett Till out to the rest of the world, thus starting the Civil Rights Movement, ”[it] gained the momentum necessary to break free from the social bondage”(25); the “emotional outrage”(25) from the trial and media was enough to ignite the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement, ”’[it] became the first great media event of the civil rights movement’”(25). The death of Emmett Till was the final stroke in starting civil liberties
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