A Wreath for Emmett Till

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2005

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780547529479
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (www.hmhco.com)
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Copyrighted By:
Marilyn Nelson
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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