A Wreath for Emmett Till
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Author
Contributions
- Lardy, Philippe. - Contributor
Publication
2005-04-04 - HMH Books for Young Readers, Boston, USA, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
8,500 words, Guess
Page Count
34 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3291932M
- ISBN-139780618397525
- ISBN-100618397523
- OCLC Control Number55096036
- OCLC Control Numberwreathforemmettt00nels
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004009205
- Goodreads824499
- LibraryThing386426
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3573.A4795 W73 2005
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.”
Subjects
Topics
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People
Genres
- Juvenile poetry.
Other Editions
- A Wreath for Emmett Till
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