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by Marilyn Nelson (Author), Philippe Lardy (Illustrator)
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."
Number of Pages: 48
Dimensions: 0.2 x 7.3 x 7.8 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: January 12, 2009
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Wreath for Emmett Till
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 0.5
