| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
""Front Cover""; ""Front Flap""; ""Endpapers""; ""Front Matter""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Dedication""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Back Matter""; ""WHO WAS EMMETT TILL?""; ""Sonnet Notes""; ""Artist's Note""; ""References""; ""Endpapers"" |
| Summary |
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 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. Newbery Honor-winning poet Nelson offers an evocative tribute to a 14-year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 helps spark the civil rights movement. Full color. |
| Audience |
NP Lexile. |
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NP Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.3 0.5 104613 |
| Summary |
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 whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [34]). |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Juvenile poetry.
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Till, Emmett, 1941-1955. |
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African Americans -- Crimes against -- Juvenile poetry.
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African American teenage boys -- Juvenile poetry.
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Trials (Murder) -- Juvenile poetry.
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Murder victims -- Juvenile poetry.
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Hate crimes -- Juvenile poetry.
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Lynching -- Juvenile poetry.
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Children's poetry, American.
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Poetry.
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African American teenage boys. |
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African Americans -- Crimes against. |
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Children's poetry, American. |
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Hate crimes. |
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Lynching. |
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Murder victims. |
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Trials (Murder) |
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Mississippi -- Juvenile poetry.
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Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Poetry.
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Mississippi -- Poetry.
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African Americans -- Crimes against -- Poetry.
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African American teenage boys -- Poetry.
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Trials (Murder) -- Poetry.
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Murder victims -- Poetry.
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Hate crimes -- Poetry.
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Lynching -- Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Mississippi. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
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Juvenile works.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Lardy, Philippe, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- Wreath for Emmett Till Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005 9780618397525 (DLC) 2004009205 (OCoLC)55096036 |
| ISBN |
9780547529479 : $7.99 |
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0547529473 : $7.99 |
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