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- Title
Submitted for Their Approval: Rod Serling and the Lynching of Emmett Till.
- Authors
METRESS, CHRISTOPHER
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion of the television films "A Town Has Turned to Dust," and "Noon on Doomsday," by Rod Serling, and their depiction of the historical lynching of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi in 1955. The article discusses the production history of the television programs, noting both Serling's efforts to relate the story of the murder and the resistance met in various capacities to air it.
- Subjects
SERLING, Rod, 1924-1975; MADE-for-TV movies; LYNCHING; TILL, Emmett, 1941-1955; TOWN Has Turned to Dust, A (TV program); NOON on Doomsday (TV program)
- Publication
Mississippi Quarterly, 2008, Vol 62, Issue 1/2, p143
- ISSN
0026-637X
- Publication type
Article