A wreath for Emmett Till
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A wreath for Emmett Till
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
A wreath for Emmett Till
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Summary
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
Target audience
adult
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Subject
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile poetry
- Hate crimes -- Juvenile poetry
- Electronic books
- Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile poetry
- Lynching -- Juvenile poetry
- Murder victims -- Juvenile poetry
- Children's poetry, American
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Juvenile poetry
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Juvenile poetry
- Mississippi -- Juvenile poetry
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- Classification1
- Contributor1
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- Subject10
- African American teenage boys -- Juvenile poetry
- Hate crimes -- Juvenile poetry
- Electronic books
- Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile poetry
- Lynching -- Juvenile poetry
- Murder victims -- Juvenile poetry
- Children's poetry, American
- African Americans + Crimes against -- Juvenile poetry
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Juvenile poetry
- Mississippi -- Juvenile poetry
- Content1
- Author1