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January 8, 2007
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson and Philippe Lardy
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, 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."
Posted by at January 8, 2007 2:05 PM | A Wreath for Emmett Till | Spring 2007
Comments
I FEEL BAD 4 HIM
Posted by: Raychelle at November 28, 2007 8:53 AM
THIS WAS A VERY SAD STORY AND I REALLY LIKED IT AND I ALSO FEEL SORRY FOR HIS FAMILY
Posted by: YESENIA at February 12, 2008 2:03 PM
THIS WAS A VERY SAD STORY AND I REALLY LIKED IT AND I ALSO FEEL SORRY FOR HIS FAMILY
Posted by: YESENIA at February 12, 2008 2:04 PM
~R.I.P TO HIM WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER U ~
Posted by: TYCHELLE at May 19, 2008 9:37 PM
Funeral wreaths are commonly sent to the memorial service or funeral home by families and friends because their shape, as well as the flowers used.
Posted by: Flower Patch at January 18, 2011 1:01 AM