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A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) by Nelson, Marilyn, 1946; Lardy, Philippe is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

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Author

Nelson, Marilyn, 1946; Lardy, Philippe

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439597972

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Education, Young Adult

Rating

4.19 / 5 (1,519 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14