2006 Coretta Scott King Honor BookIn 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."
- ISBN13 9780618397525
- Publish Date 4 April 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English