A Wreath for Emmett Till
Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 21 cm
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."
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Juvenile poetry.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Juvenile poetry.
African American teenage boys -- Juvenile poetry.
Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile poetry.
Murder victims -- Juvenile poetry.
Hate crimes -- Juvenile poetry.
Lynching -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Mississippi -- Juvenile poetry.
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Juvenile poetry.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Juvenile poetry.
African American teenage boys -- Juvenile poetry.
Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile poetry.
Murder victims -- Juvenile poetry.
Hate crimes -- Juvenile poetry.
Lynching -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Mississippi -- Juvenile poetry.
Target Audience: NP
ISBN:
0618397523
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C LITERATURE Poetry Nel | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
LITERATURE Poetry Nel | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
C LITERATURE Poetry AF AM Nel | Southeast | Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.
Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2006.
Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2006.