Description A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback.
The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide med.
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.
A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.
Description A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback