ISBN:
9781556527838
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 144 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Simeon's Story : An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
DDC:
305.8/009762
Keywords:
Till, Emmett Juvenile literature
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African Americans Juvenile literature Crimes against 20th century
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History
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Lynching Juvenile literature History 20th century
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Trials (Murder) Juvenile literature
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African American teenage boys Biography
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Juvenile literature
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Racism Juvenile literature History 20th century
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Mississippi Juvenile literature Race relations
Abstract:
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-
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Back Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Herb Boyd; Acknowledgments; 1 Life in Mississippi; 2 My Family; 3 At Home with Mom and Dad; 4 The Abduction; 5 The Trial; 6 Fear and Flight; 7 In Argo; 8 Reopening the Case and Exhuming the Body; 9 Bobo on My Mind; Epilogue: The Till Bill; Appendix: Lies, Myths, and Distortions; Index
Note:
Includes index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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