Mose Wright side 1
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-0918
label: General
content: CDR copy Mose Wright (c.1890 - 1973) was a Mississippi sharecropper and the great uncle of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old boy brutally murdered in the summer of 1955. Emmett Till was staying in Mose Wright's home on a plantation near Money, Mississippi when two white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, kidnapped the young boy for allegedly whistling at Bryant's wife. The two men threatened Wright at gun point, warning the old man to keep his mouth shut or, "you'll never live to be sixty-five." Wright would later testify against Bryant and Milam in his great nephew's murder trial.
name: label: Creator
content: Wright, Mose, ca. 1890-1973
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
place: label: Place
content: Mississippi
label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: United States -- History
topic: label: Topic
content: Oral history
label: Topic
content: Civil rights movements -- United States
label: Topic
content: African Americans
creator: label: Creator
content: Wright, Mose, ca. 1890-1973
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
label: See more items in
content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / CDR copy
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-0918
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: Interview