Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till

In 1955 Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was abducted and brutally murdered, an act that shocked the nation and sparked the early civil rights movement. Told by his cousin Simeon Wright, who witnessed the events firsthand, the memoir reconstructs the night of the kidnapping, the subsequent trial, and the pervasive climate of racial terror in the Delta. The narrative offers a personal, unflinching look at a modern tragedy that forever changed American race relations.