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More than a dream : the radical march on Washington for jobs and freedom / Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long.

Summary:

"Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 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. 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. It was a revolutionary march with its own controversies and problems, the themes of which still resonate to this day. Without diminishing the words of Dr. 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. From Yohuru Williams and Michael G. 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"--Publisher's description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374391744
  • ISBN: 0374391742
  • Physical Description: 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part One: First steps -- A march for jobs -- A march for jobs - and freedom -- Kennedy resists -- Choosing the director -- Remembering Medgar Evers -- Part Two: Mapping the march -- Visualizing the day -- Kennedy caves -- Malcolm X speaks out -- The FBI attacks -- The women demand -- Part Three: On the way -- Three hitchhikers - and the students left behind -- Freedom trains -- SNCC pickets, Malcolm pokes -- Militant voices -- Part Four: Gathering and marching -- Rising at dawn -- The occupation begins -- Black women speak, hatemongers rage -- The people lead the way -- Part Five: The Lincoln Memorial program -- Freedom fighters -- Celebrities -- A socialist revolution -- A tribute to Black women -- A minister confesses, Marian Anderson returns -- Lewis scorches -- Mahalia Jackson moves the sea -- The dream -- We demand.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 10-14 Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
Grades 4-6 Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers.
1090L Lexile.com.
Subject: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.) > Juvenile literature.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
Discrimination in employment > United States > Juvenile literature.
Occupations > Juvenile literature.
Protest movements > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements > History.
Discrimination in employment.
Occupations.
Protest movements > History.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Professions > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Contestation > États-Unis > Histoire > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Activism & Social Justice.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century.
JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American & Black.
Occupations.
Occupations > Juvenile literature.
Genre: Juvenile works.
Informational works.
Documents d'information.

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