Edición de la obra A Wreath for Emmett Till
| Autor | Marilyn Nelson |
|---|---|
| Editorial | HMH Books for Young Readers, Houghton Mifflin |
| Fecha de publicación | April 4, 2005 |
| Lugar | Boston, USA |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 34 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780618397525 |
| ISBN-10 | 0618397523 |
| OCLC | 55096036 |
| LCCN | 2004009205 |
| Número de Cutter |
N428w |
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.”