Beyond Reading

• Explore the following songs and poems that were written about the murder of Emmett Till.

• Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday. Here are the lyrics.

• Mississippi-1955 by Langston Hughes

• The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan

• The Lovesong of Emmett Till by Anthony Walton

• A Bronzeville Mother Loiters In Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon by Gwendolyn Brooks

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