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A wreath for Emmett Till

Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal o...

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Main Author: Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
Other Authors: Lardy, Philippe.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Physical Description: 34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm.
Subjects:
Till, Emmett, -- 1941-1955. -- Juvenile poetry.
African Americans -- Crimes against -- Juvenile poetry.
African American teenage boys -- Juvenile poetry.
Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile poetry.
Murder victims -- Juvenile poetry.
Hate crimes -- Juvenile poetry.
Lynching -- Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Poetry -- Juvenile literature.
Mississippi -- Juvenile poetry.
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