Author: Nelson, Marilyn

Price: $6.99

Category:Teen & Young Adult Literature & Fiction
Publication Date:2009-01-12T00:00:01Z
Pages:48
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0547076363
ISBN:13:9780547076362
A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin. 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, award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement.