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A wreath for Emmett Till / Marilyn Nelson ; illustrated by Philippe Lardy.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.A4795 W73 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Marilyn, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955--Juvenile poetry.
- Till, Emmett.
- Till, Emmett, 1941-1955.
- African Americans--Crimes against--Juvenile poetry.
- African Americans.
- African American teenage boys--Juvenile poetry.
- African American teenage boys.
- Trials (Murder)--Juvenile poetry.
- Trials (Murder).
- Murder victims--Juvenile poetry.
- Murder victims.
- Hate crimes--Juvenile poetry.
- Hate crimes.
- Lynching.
- African Americans--Crimes against.
- Mississippi--Juvenile poetry.
- Mississippi.
- Lynching--Juvenile poetry.
- Children's poetry, American.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
- Summary:
- 2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book 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."
- Notes:
- "The text of this book is set in Concord Nova."
- "The illustrations are tempera on cardboard."
- Includes bibliographical references (page [34]).
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 2006
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has "Reinforced Binding".
- ISBN:
- 0618397523
- OCLC:
- 55096036
- Publisher Number:
- 9780618397525
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