Binding: Hardcover
Description: A National BOOK Award Longlist Selection Hailed as an essential reeducation on one of the most consequential events in US history by Ibram X. Kendi this gripping middle - grade account 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. 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.
Title: More Than A Dream The Radical March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom
Author(s): Long Michael G.
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux (Byr)
Barcode: 9780374391744
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/29/2023