A Wreath for Emmett Till
Download or Read eBook A Wreath for Emmett Till PDF written by Marilyn Nelson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Marilyn Nelson |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 49 |
| Release | : 2009-01-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780547529479 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0547529473 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A Wreath for Emmett Till by : Marilyn Nelson
Book excerpt: 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.
