Simeon Wright: 'Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till'
Date: Mon. February 22, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Location:
Manning
6 S. Hoyne Avenue
60612
Program: African American Heritage Month
About this event:
No tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and brutal murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago whose body was battered and dumped in the Tallahatchie River while visiting his Mississippi relatives in 1955. Till’s cousin, Simeon Wright, was with him that summer and was sleeping in the same bed with him when the kidnappers came and took Emmett away.
Mr. Wright has written a gripping coming of age memoir of the events of that summer: Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till.
Join us as he gives his personal account of growing up in Mississippi in the 1940s, the crime, the sensational trial and how the family endured the difficult time afterward.
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