Simeon's story
an eyewitness account of the kidnapping of Emmett Till
by Simeon Wright, Simeon Wright, and Herb Boyd
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Documents the 1955 kidnapping and murder of teenage Emmett Till as remembered by his cousin, sharing descriptions of life in period Mississippi and how the ensuing murder trial became a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
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Juvenile Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Juvenile literature, Race relations, Lynching, History, African Americans, Crimes against, African American teenage boys, Biography, Racism, Trials (Murder), JUVENILE NONFICTION, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Heritage, African americans, biography, African americans, juvenile literature, Murder, Murder, juvenile literature, Mississippi, history, Mississippi, juvenile literature, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, United states, race relationsPeople
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Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
Sep 01, 2011, Chicago Review Press
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Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
2010, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
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Simeon's story: an eyewitness account of the kidnapping of Emmett Till
2010, Lawrence Hill Books
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1556527837 9781556527838
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Simeon's story: an eyewitness account of the kidnapping of Emmett Till
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Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
2010, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
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Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
2010, Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
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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 there during the aftermath of the murder, and at the trial, where his father testified. This gripping coming-of-age memoir may not bring closure to the Till case, whose perpetrators were left unpunished, but it will set the facts straight about that life-changing incident in 1955.
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