Nelson, Marilyn | Batavia High School Media Center

A Wreath for Emmett Till

This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.

1941-1955, African American teenage boys, African Americans, Children's poetry, American, Crimes against

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A series of poems on the life of Fortune, an eighteenth-century African-American slave in New England whose skeleton came to be an exhibit at Connecticut's Mattatuck Museum; includes notes and archiva

African Americans, Connecticut, Poetry, Slavery, Slaves

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Fortune's Bones

Marilyn Nelson

Poem in several voices and the story of the skeletal remains of a slave whose skeleton was kept on display in a museum.

African Americans, American poetry, Connecticut, Poetry, Slavery

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A Wreath for Emmett Till

Marilyn Nelson

This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.

1941-1955, African American teenage boys, African Americans, Children's poetry, American, Crimes against

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NEL