Simeon's Story - An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till (Electronic book text)

A modern tragedy, athis storyahas had a greataimpact 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 cousinawho was present every step of the way.aSimeon 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 willasetathe factsastraight about that life-changing incident in 1955.