A Wreath for Emmett Till

Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted.

• | Author: Marilyn Nelson
• | Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• | Publication Date: January 12, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 48 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0547076363
• | ISBN-13: 9780547076362