Charles Diggs Quotes

I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.

Charles Diggs

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• Interest
• Mutilation
• Emmett Till
• Jet magazine

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• I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.

  

  Charles Diggs
  • Picture
  • Interest
  • Mutilation