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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a series of original, interactive audio slideshows with Marilyn Nelson, including her reading A Wreath for Emmett Till in its entirety, a written interview, and a comprehensive bibliography of Nelson's books. Also includes a collection of off-site links to resources about Emmett Till and poetry, book award sites, and publishers' pages.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a series of original, interactive audio slideshows with Marilyn Nelson, including her reading A Wreath for Emmett Till in its entirety, a written interview, and a comprehensive bibliography of Nelson's books. Also includes a collection of off-site links to resources about Emmett Till and poetry, book award sites, and publishers' pages.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a series of original, interactive audio slideshows with Marilyn Nelson, including her reading A Wreath for Emmett Till in its entirety, a written interview, and a comprehensive bibliography of Nelson's books. Also includes a collection of off-site links to resources about Emmett Till and poetry, book award sites, and publishers' pages.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programs2005., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a series of original, interactive audio slideshows with Marilyn Nelson, including her reading A Wreath for Emmett Till in its entirety, a written interview, and a comprehensive bibliography of Nelson's books. Also includes a collection of off-site links to resources about Emmett Till and poetry, book award sites, and publishers' pages.
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2009, c2005., Pre-adolescent, Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: 811 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A poem to remind us of the fate of a young African American boy who whistled at a white woman and was killed for it.
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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.