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A Wreath for Emmett Till-A Printz Award Winner
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2006 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.”
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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| Product # | 27280-G |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13 | 9780547076362 |
| ISBN-10 | 0547076363 |
| Author | Marilyn Nelson |
| Grade Level | 7-12 |
| Interest Level | 7-12 |
| Fiction/Nonfiction | Fiction |
| Lexile Level | NP |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Multicultural | African American |