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January 08, 2007

A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson and Philippe Lardy

emmettilll.jpgIn 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 Topher McCulloch at January 8, 2007 02:05 PM | A Wreath for Emmett Till | Spring 2007

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I FEEL BAD 4 HIM

Posted by: Raychelle at November 28, 2007 08:53 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 02:03 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 02:04 PM

~R.I.P TO HIM WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER U ~

Posted by: TYCHELLE at May 19, 2008 09:37 PM

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