Emmett Till's cousin speaks of the night he was taken in 1955

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Simeon Wright was in the same bedroom as his cousin when he was kidnapped to be killed for whistling at a white woman. He tells Dotun Adebayo that Emmett Till "didn't have a clue as to what was about to happen to him" when two white men took him from his bed in his uncle's house in a small town in Mississippi. African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parkes said his death inspired her to famously refuse to give up her seat on a bus.