Age
12+
Grade
7+
Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy
A Wreath for Emmett Till
Library Binding
(Houghton Mifflin Books for Children April 4, 2005)
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.”
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.”
- Series
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)
- Pages
- 48
- Weight
- 10.7 oz.
- Dimensions
- 0.5 x 7.8 in.
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