![]() ![]() The book was published in 2005 and won the 2005 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, a 2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book, a 2006 Michael L. The final poem is also an acrostic that reads RIP Emmett L Till. Marilyn Nelson’s A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL is a heroic crown of sonnets– a sequence of fifteen interlinked sonnets, in which the last one is made up of the first lines of the preceding fourteen. ![]() Justice Department reopened the case based on new evidence brought to light by two documentary films. Though two men were tried for the crime, they were acquitted no one has been convicted for Emmett’s murder. ![]() Houghton Mifflin’s teacher guide to A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL gives the following short explanation of Emmet Till’s death.Įmmett Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at or speaking to a white woman. Recently, the name Emmett Till has surfaced quite a bit in relation to the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. ![]()
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