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(0)Marilyn Nelson
Author
Language
English
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Description
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...
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...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Quiet Lubaya, who is happiest when she is drawing, creates pictures on the backs of her parents' old protest posters, but when her parents use the posters in a march, Lubaya's positive drawings are on display for the whole world to see.