适合人群:Students and adults interested in African American history and civil rights, readers who enjoy historical fiction, young adults seeking to understand the civil rights movement, and anyone interested in the life and impact of Emmett Till.
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."
ISBN:9780618397525
出版日期:2005-4 适合人群:Students and adults interested in African American history and civil rights, readers who enjoy historical fiction, young adults seeking to understand the civil rights movement, and anyone interested in the life and impact of Emmett Till.