Simeon Wright (1942–2017)
Auteur de Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till
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Simeon Brown Wright was born in Doddsville, Mississippi on October 15, 1942. At the age of 12, he watched his cousin Emmett Till be abducted at gunpoint and identified Emmett's ring for the police a few days later, after his cousin's beaten body had been fished from the Tallahatchie River. After afficher plus graduating from high school, he joined the Army. He experienced a religious conversion in his early 20s. He enrolled in a union apprenticeship program for pipe fitters at Reynolds Metals and became a deacon in the Argo Temple Church of God in Christ in Cook County, Illinois. His book, Simeon's Story: The Kidnapping of Emmett Till written with Herb Boyd, was published in 2010. He died from complications of bone cancer on September 4, 2017 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Simeon Wright
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- Nom légal
- Wright, Simeon Brown
- Date de naissance
- 1942-10-15
- Date de décès
- 2017-09-04
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Doddsville, Mississippi, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Countryside, Illinois, USA
- Cause du décès
- cancer (bone)
- Lieux de résidence
- Doddsville, Mississippi, USA
Argo, Illinois, USA
Countryside, Illinois, USA - Relations
- Till, Emmett (cousin)
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- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 62
- Popularité
- #271,094
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 6