{"id":13449,"date":"2023-02-04T10:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2023-02-04T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:59:58","slug":"a-wreath-for-emmett-till","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/a-wreath-for-emmett-till\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wreath for Emmett Till"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Marilyn Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices, to \u201cspeak what we see.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wreath-Emmett-Till-Marilyn-Nelson\/dp\/0547076363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Wreath for Emmett Till<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the movie trailer:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/MGM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/MGM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"image","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[83],"class_list":{"0":"post-13449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-young-adult","8":"tag-black-history","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13450,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions\/13450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}