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- ↑ "Backstage". Ebony . Johnson Publishing Company. 41 (4): 22. 2023-09-28. ISSN 0012-9011 . Retrieved 28 September 2023– via Google Books.
Two of the standout Black women journalists of that time were Era Bell Thompson, then co-managing editor of Ebony and now retired, and Clotye Murdock, a recruit from the Black Michigan Chronicle who got her schooling at Chicago's Roosevelt University, Fisk, Wayne State in Detroit and the University of Wisconsin. We say all of this to get to the woman pictured above. Clotye Murdock worked as an associate editor for Ebony from 1951 until 1958 and compiled a work record that few have matched. She left the U.S.and has lived the past 24 years in Sweden as Mrs. Clotye Murdock Larsson, wife of a Swedish businessman.
- ↑ "The Photo That Changed the Civil Rights Movement". Time. 2016-07-10. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
- ↑ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2023-09-26. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjjsGKmOQGn/
- ↑ The Till Trilogy is a series of plays by noted playwright Ifa Bayeza that reflect on the life, death, and legacy of Emmett Till. https://mosaictheater.org/till-trilogy
- ↑ Murray, Olivia (17 October 2022). "Review: The Till Trilogy at Mosaic Theater Company". Broadway World . Retrieved September 26, 2023.
We also get the perspective from those not directly involved with the case - journalists David "Jax" Jackson (played by Vaughn Ryan Midder), Clotye Murdock (played by Rolonda Watts), and Simeon Booker (played by Jaysen Wright). These people are not just journalists looking for a story though, they want to find the truth so that justice can be brought against Emmett's murderers.
- ↑ Pepper, Bobby (March 20, 2021). "Mississippi siblings contribute to Civil Rights TV series".
- ↑ Neuman, Ricki (2005-06-23). "Hon såg Mississippi brinna". Svenska Dagbladet . Retrieved 2023-09-26.
- ↑ Olar, Jared (May 24, 2019). "Entertaining the Pekinese".
The article, entitled "Educating the Pekinese" and written by Clotye Murdock, associate editor of Ebony magazine, sheds a revealing and edifying light on the racial attitudes of the residents of the then-all-white city of Pekin.
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