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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:978-1-56976-542-5
Publication Date:Jan 2010
Publisher:Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $10.99
Book Description:

A modern tragedy, this story has had a great impact on race relations in America. Emmett Till's kidnapping and murder, a grotesque crime in a Southern backwater that became the catalyst for the civil rights movement, is explained in this dramatic narrative by the cousin who was present every step of the way. Simeon Wright saw and heard his cousin Emmett whistle at Caroline Bryant at a grocery store and slept in the same bed with him when her husband came in and took Emmett away; he was...
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Author Biography
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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