A Wreath for Emmett Till
by Marilyn Nelson
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In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention.
Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr’s wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to “speak what we see.”
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Lynching, Trials (Murder), African American teenage boys, Juvenile poetry, Poetry, American poetry, Crimes against, Murder victims, African Americans, Hate crimes, Children's poetry, American, Trials (Homicide), Children's poetry, African American youth, Victims of crimes, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, American poetry, african american authors, United states, biography, poetryPeople
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A Wreath for Emmett Till
April 4, 2005, HMH Books for Young Readers, Houghton Mifflin
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [34]).
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