Author(s): Philippe Lardy
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 48
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Language: English
Date Published: 2009-01-12
Dimensions: 185.42 x 200.66 x 7.62mm
Publication City/Country: Boston, United States
Edition: Reprint
Illustrations: Illustrations, color

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.