Simeon Wright (1942–2017)
Autore di 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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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- Nome legale
- Wright, Simeon Brown
- Data di nascita
- 1942-10-15
- Data di morte
- 2017-09-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Doddsville, Mississippi, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Countryside, Illinois, USA
- Causa della morte
- cancer (bone)
- Luogo di residenza
- Doddsville, Mississippi, USA
Argo, Illinois, USA
Countryside, Illinois, USA - Relazioni
- Till, Emmett (cousin)
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- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 62
- Popolarità
- #271,094
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 6