A Wreath for Emmett Till

Name: A Wreath for Emmett Till
Author: Marilyn Nelson
ISBN: 9780547529479

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A Wreath for Emmett Till won a Coretta Scott King honor and a Printz honor. 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 held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. In a profound and chilling poem, Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement.

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