A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson

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."

Marilyn Nelson has won a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and many Coretta Scott King Honors, as well as several important poetry honors, including the Poets' Prize and the Robert Frost Medal. She is a three-time National Book Award Finalist. She has received three honorary doctorates and has recently served as a judge for poetry candidates at the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo.

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ISBN 13	9780547076362
ISBN 10	0547076363
Title	A Wreath for Emmett Till
Author	Marilyn Nelson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Year published	2009-01-12
Number of pages	48
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.