A Wreath for Emmett Till
Lynching
African American youth
Hate crimes
Murder victims
Victims of crimes
Children's poetry, American
Trials (Murder)
Reading Level-Grade 7
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Reading Level-Grade 9
Reading Level-Grade 10
Juvenile poetry
Children's poetry
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 12
American poetry
Crimes against
Poetry
African Americans
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…
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