A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner

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A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner - Paperback

A Wreath for Emmett Till: A Printz Award Winner - Paperback

by Marilyn Nelson
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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."
ISBN9780547076362
Author Marilyn Nelson
PublisherClarion Books
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2009
LanguageENG- English
Pages48
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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