Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Nelson, Marilyn; Lardy, Philippe |
| Publisher: | Clarion Books |
| Date: | 1/12/2009 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book
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, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention.
Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr’s wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to “speak what we see.”
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