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Format:

Book

Author:

Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- author.

Title:

A wreath for Emmett Till / Marilyn Nelson ; illustrated by Philippe Lardy.

Publisher, Date:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Description:

34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm

Summary:

Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. 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. Newbery Honor-winning poet Nelson offers an evocative tribute to a 14-year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 helps spark the civil rights movement. Full color.

Subjects:

Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Poetry.

African Americans -- Crimes against -- Poetry.

African American teenage boys -- Poetry.

Trials (Murder) -- Poetry.

Murder victims -- Poetry.

Hate crimes -- Poetry.

Lynching -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Mississippi -- Poetry.

Genre:

Sonnets.