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-- Birmingham, nineteen sixty-threec2007., Wordsong Call No: 811 .6 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the feelings of a fictional character who witnessed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
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-- Birmingham, nineteen sixty-threec2007., Pre-adolescent, Wordsong Call No: 811 .6 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the feelings of a fictional character who witnessed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
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2012., Candlewick Call No: POETRY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
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Ã2012., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: TEEN FIC NEW Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
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2005, Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. 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. Newbery Honor-winning poet Nelson offers an evocative tribute to a 14-year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 helps spark the civil rights movement. Full color
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-- Emmett Tillc2005., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 811 NEL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.
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-- Emmett Till2005., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 811 Nel Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.