A gripping middle-grade history that offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest\'s Radical roots and the underappreciated role of Black women--includes a wealth of contemporary black-and-white photos throughout.
Long, the acclaimed authors of Call Him Jack, comes a classic-in-the-making that will transform our modern understanding of this legendary event in the fight for racial justice and civil rights..
From Yohuru Williams and Michael G.
King, More Than a Dream looks at the March through a wider lens, using Black newspaper reports as a primary resource, recognizing the overlooked work of socialist organizers and Black women protesters, and repositioning this momentous day as Radical in its roots, methods, demands, and results.
Without diminishing the words of Dr.
It was a revolutionary March with its own controversies and problems, the themes of which still resonate to this day.
But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for Jobs and Freedom NOW--not at some undetermined point in the future. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr.
A gripping middle-grade history that offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest\'s Radical roots and the underappreciated role of Black women--includes a wealth of contemporary black-and-white photos throughout
