Age
12+
Grade
7-9
Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy
A Wreath for Emmett Till
Paperback
(HMH Books for Young Readers Jan. 12, 2009)
, Reprint edition
A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.
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 held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. In a profound and chilling poem, award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement.
- ISBN
- 0547076363 / 9780547076362
- Pages
- 48
- Weight
- 3.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 0.2
in.