num_pages: 48
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.”
language: English
title: A Wreath for Emmett Till
titlecomplete: A Wreath for Emmett Till
characters: Emmett Till
genres: Cultural, Historical, Picture Books, Poetry, Social Justice, Teen, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 2401
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Michael L. Printz Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author Honor
publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers