February 12, 2014
Author and cousin to Emmett Till, Simeon Wright, as a young boy sitting on the lap of his father, Moses Wright in 1955
Stories this photo appears in:
A First-Hand Account of Events Leading to the Murder of Emmett Till
The story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African American youth from Chicago who was murdered Aug. 1955 while visiting with relatives in Money, Miss., is one that for years haunted his family and the entire African American community and, some would say, helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement.