Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson

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	9780618397525
ISBN 10	0618397523
Title	Wreath for Emmett Till
Author	Marilyn Nelson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2005-04-04
Number of pages	48
Prizes	Commended for Coretta Scott King Award (Author) 2006, Commended for Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Fiction & Poetry) 2005, Commended for Michael L. Printz Award (Young Adult) 2006, Commended for Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Children's) 2006, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Fourteen and Up) 2006, Short-listed for Virginia Readers Choice Award (High School) 2007, Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2007, Short-listed for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2008, Short-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2010
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