A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards))
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0618397523
ISBN 13
9780618397525
Category
Biography & Genealogy
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
48
Description
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.” - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
