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Subject(s):
JUVENILE NONFICTION: Poetry / General
JUVENILE NONFICTION: People & Places-US/African-American
JUVENILE NONFICTION: Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism


Description:
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."