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A Wreath for Emmett Till

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Binding: Paperback
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ISBN: 9780547076362
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language: English
Page Count: 0
Publication Date: 1/1/2005
Size: 4.65" l x 3.58" w x 0.31"
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Category Subject
Young Adult Nonfiction Poetry
A Printz Award Winner
Coretta Scott King Honor Book

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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