Simeon's story : an eyewitness account of the kidnapping of Emmett Till / Simeon Wright with Herb Boyd.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 144 p. : ill., map ; 23 cmISBN:- 1556527837
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955
- Lynching -- Mississippi -- History
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History
- Offenses against the person -- Mississippi -- History
- Teenagers -- Mississippi -- Biography
- Boys -- Biography
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History
- Trials (Homicide) -- Mississippi
- Mississippi -- Race relations
- 305.8/009762 22
- E185.93.M6 W83 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Hardcover | Beverly Middle School | 305.8 WRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000000703990 |
Includes index.
Life in Mississippi -- My family -- At home with Mom and Dad -- The abduction -- The trial -- Fear and flight -- In Argo -- Reopening the case and exhuming the body -- Bobo on my mind -- Epilogue : the Till Bill -- Appendix : lies, myths, and distortions.
Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011
Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010
School Library Journal, February 2010
Booklist, February 2010
Horn Book, October 2010
Kirkus Review, December 2009
Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi during the 1940s and 1950s, reveals details about the night Emmett was kidnapped, and reflects on how the crime and trial affected his family and the community.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.6 5.0 148400 NBEV.