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Simeon's Story

An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till

Simeon's Story( )
Author: Wright, Simeon
Boyd, Herb
ISBN:978-1-55652-783-8
Publication Date:Jan 2010
Publisher:Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. A 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955, Till was taken from his uncle’s home by two white men; several days later, his body was found in the Tallahatchie River. This grotesque crime became the catalyst for the civil rights movement.

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Wright, Simeon (Author)
Simeon Brown Wright was born in Doddsville, Mississippi on October 15, 1942. At the age of 12, he watched his cousin Emmett Till be abducted at gunpoint and identified Emmett's ring for the police a few days later, after his cousin's beaten body had been fished from the Tallahatchie River. After graduating from high school, he joined the Army. He experienced a religious conversion in his early 20s. He enrolled in a union apprenticeship program for pipe fitters at Reynolds Metals and became a deacon in the Argo Temple Church of God in Christ in Cook County, Illinois. His book, Simeon's Story: The Kidnapping of Emmett Till written with Herb Boyd, was published in 2010. He died from complications of bone cancer on September 4, 2017 at the age of 74.

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