Simeon Wright(1942-2017)

After Till's killers were acquitted at trial, Wright's father moved the family to Chicago.

It scared us half to death. We were almost in shock. We couldn't get out of there fast enough, because we had never heard of anything like that before. A black boy whistling at a white woman? In Mississippi? No. [on his reaction to his cousin Emmett whistling at a white woman in a grocery store]